Johnson v. Mortham’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Reynolds v. Sims · Farrar v. Hobby · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reproduction expenses, telephone expenses of the attorney, travel time and expenses of the attorney, and postage”); Chicago Professional Sports Ltd. Partnership v. National Basketball Assoc., 1992 WL 584077 at (N.D.Ill.Dec.21, 1992) (out-of-pocket expenses may include”
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.