Johnson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 1043 · 1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2017
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Procunier v. Martinez · Thornburgh v. Abbott · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · United States v. Armour & 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal district court may not use its power of enforcing consent decrees to enlarge or diminish the duties on which the parties have agreed and which the court has approved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court may, of course, modify a consent decree to impose new duties upon a party”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To modify a consent decree to impose new obligations, a district court must at a minimum (1) provide specific notice that it is contemplating the imposition of obligations in addition to those contained in the decree; (2) allow the parties an opportunity to present relevant evidence on the need for the additional obligations and the proper character of those obligations; and (3) issue specific findings that support a determination that modification is warranted.”
1 later decision 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.