Johnstone v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board (1973), 21 Cal. 3d 650 - Palos Verdes Faculty Ass'n v. Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (1978)
94 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 Froehly v. Harton · Burke v. Coleman · 11 Cal. 2d 81 - Wahl v. Waters · Johnstone v. State Board of Equalization · Hotel Enterprises v. Porter
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... `keeping in mind the nature and obvious purpose of the statute where they appear.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * We think that, as used by the Legislature and by the board, the word ‘seasonal’ must be interpreted to refer to a business located in a seasonal area where the consumer demand fluctuates during different periods of the year. This is in accord with the dictionary definition of the term. In- Webster’s New International Dictionary (2d ed.) the first definition given of the term ‘seasonal’ is ‘of, pertaining to, or occurring at, a particular season or seasons; as seasonal rates, demand,’ etc. The secondary definition, which is the one contended for by appellant, is ‘not continuously active.’ We think that the word was used in the statute in the first sense above set forth.” (Italics supplied in part.)”
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.