Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] federal court should not, in an ordinary case, lend its judicial power to a plaintiff who seeks to invoke that power for the purpose of consummating a transaction in clear violation of law.”

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Cited by

122 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co.
  Supreme Court· 1945-04-23· cited 1,028×
• Pope v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1944-11-06· cited 373×
• Hostetter v. Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-01· cited 296×
• North Dakota v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-05-21· cited 227×
• Williams v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-04-01· cited 224×
• Blackburn v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-11-19· cited 211×
• United States v. Eric J. Carlson
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-04-03· cited 193×
• United States v. Sharpnack
  Supreme Court· 1958-01-13· cited 190×
• Leroy Ellenburg, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee. v. Brockway, Inc. & Spellman Cunningham, Defendants-Appellees/cross-Appellants
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-06-20· cited 190×
• O'KEEFFE v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-17· cited 170×
• De Burgh v. De Burgh
  California Supreme Court· 1952-11-25· cited 153×
• Lewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-09· cited 130×
• Ernest Kay v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1958-05-17· cited 126×
• Donna Shondel and Mark J. McKechnie v. Thomas M. McDermott Individually and as Mayor of the City of Hammond, Indiana
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-10-31· cited 109×
• United States v. Walter T. Best
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-03-31· cited 104×
• Monsanto Company v. Rohm & Haas Company
  Third Circuit· 1972-03-09· cited 101×
• United States v. State Tax Commission
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-04· cited 82×
• United States v. Mary Marcyes and James Siddle, United States of America v. Benjamin Reed
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-07-26· cited 77×
• Pappas v. Pappas
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1973-01-18· cited 70×
• Nakahara v. NS 1991 American Trust
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1998-09-28· cited 63×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Olmstead v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1928-06-04· cited 2,291×
• Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co.
  Supreme Court· 1933-12-04· cited 553×
• Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. (PR), Ltd.
  Supreme Court· 1937-12-06· cited 367×
• Bowman v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1888-03-19· cited 290×
• Standard Oil Co. of Cal. v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-01· cited 285×
• James Stewart & Co. v. Sadrakula
  Supreme Court· 1940-01-29· cited 234×
• McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Co.
  Supreme Court· 1916-04-24· cited 214×
• Penn Dairies, Inc. v. Milk Control Comm'n of Pa.
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-01· cited 203×
• Weil v. Neary
  Supreme Court· 1929-01-02· cited 200×
• Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co.
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-23· cited 190×
• Loughran v. Loughran
  Supreme Court· 1934-04-30· cited 183×
• Duckworth v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1941-12-15· cited 118×
• Carter v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1944-01-31· cited 116×
• Morrison v. Work
  Supreme Court· 1925-01-05· cited 106×
• United States v. Press Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1911-01-03· cited 96×
• Pacific Coast Dairy, Inc. v. Department of Agriculture of Cal.
  Supreme Court· 1943-04-05· cited 93×
• Kinsman v. Parkhurst
  Supreme Court· 1856-02-26· cited 52×
• Murray v. Joe Gerrick & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1934-02-05· cited 48×
• Bentley v. Tibbals
  Second Circuit· 1915-03-09· cited 37×
• Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1943-07-26· cited 18×

Other cases named Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1943-07-26· cited 18×
• Johnson v. Yellow Cab Transit Co.
  Supreme Court· 1943-11-22