Johnson v. Heublein, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1446
Relies on Fletcher v. Hamlet · Wilson v. Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association · Cliett v. Scott · Jenkins v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the allegations contained in the [amended complaint] bear no resemblance whatsoever to the allegations of the [original complaint]. . . . [T]he parties to the original action are now aligned in a completely different manner. . . . GSE and Walker, arguably the only Defendants against which the Johnsons stated a valid cause of action [originally] are now named Plaintiffs in this matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Louis Johnson“determined in each case with reference to its purposes and those of the 30-day limitation on removal to which it is an exception, and. . .the proper allocation of decision-making responsibilities between state and federal courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Louis Johnson“confession of judgment and assignment of claims”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Louis Johnson
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.