Burton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 690 · 1992
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Smith V. Secretary of New Mexico Department of Corrections (1995), Laitram Corp. v. NEC Corp. (1997)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Carafas v. J · Hilton v. Braunskill · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] district court may also invoke Rule 60(a) to resolve an ambiguity in its original order to more clearly reflect it contemporaneous intent and ensure that the court's purpose is fully implemented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A district court is not permitted, however, to clarify a judgment pursuant to Rule 60(a) to reflect a new and subsequent intent because it perceives its original judgment to be incorrect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weeks v. Jones“The statute vests the federal courts with 'the largest power to control and direct the form of judgment to be entered in cases brought . . . on habeas corpus.'”
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.