Johnson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2014
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1401A · 10 U.S.C. § 1448 · 10 U.S.C. § 1450 · 10 U.S.C. § 1455 · 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 1501 · 38 U.S.C. § 1503 · 38 U.S.C. § 1521
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plain meaning of a statute is discernible, that 'plain meaning must be given effect.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.