Johnson v. Greater Southeast Community Hospital Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1268 · 1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 40 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Pansy v. Borough of Stroudsburg (1994), Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches v. England (2006)
16 federal appellate · 40 district · 2 state decisions
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
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Harris v. McRae · Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency · Timberlake v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the need for public access to the documents at issue; (2) the extent to which the public had access to the documents prior to the sealing order; (3) the fact that a party has objected to disclosure and the identity of that party; (4) the strength of the property and privacy interests involved; (5) the possibility of prejudice to those opposing disclosure; and (6) the purposes for which the documents were introduced.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong presumption in favor of public access to judicial proceedings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A private party alleging federal civil rights violations need not pursue internal administrative remedies before pressing a claim in federal court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.