Johnson v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 99 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Nerren v. Livingston Police Department (1996), Foster v. City of Lake Jackson (1994)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Newland v. Georgia · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · Chrissy Medley v. Mississippi Department of Public Welfare · Brinkmann v. Johnston
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Meaningful access to the courts is a fundamental constitutional right, grounded in the First Amendment right to petition and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process clauses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snyder v. Nolen
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.