Green v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 1383 · 1992
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Roberts v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1998), Bell v. Johnson (2002)
45 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Bounds v. Smith · Rhodes v. Chapman · Smith v. Wade · Bullock 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f ... an appellant intends to urge 'that a finding or conclusion is unsupported by the evidence or is contrary to the evidence, the appellant shall include in the record a transcript of all evidence relevant to such finding or conclusion.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Any deliberate impediment to access [to the courts], even a delay of access, may constitute a constitutional deprivation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
3 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.