Johnson v. Item Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1959 · most notably 73 So. 2d 616 - Sullivan v. Locke (1954), Burthe v. Lee (1934)
36 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even when one has the right of way, he is not relieved from the necessity of looking into the direction from which others may be expected to approach, and where such care would, as in the case here, have prevented the accident, he who fails to look cannot recover, even though the other party was grossly at fault.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.