Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Doyle v. Rody (1942), Grant v. Curtin (1963)
31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hiss v. Weik · American Seamen's Friend Society v. Hopper · Barabasz v. Kabat · Brown v. Ward · Dringer v. Jewett
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a person persistently believes supposed facts, which have no real existence except in his perverted imagination, and against all evidence and probability, and conducts himself, however logically, upon the assumption of their existence, he is, so far as they are concerned, under a morbid delusion; and delusion in that sense is insanity. Such a person is essentially mad or insane on those subjects, although on other subjects he may reason, act and speak like a sensible man.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . the meaning of insane delusion, in its legal sense, is ‘a belief in things impossible, or a belief in things possible, but so improbable under the surrounding circumstances, that no man of sound mind could give them credence.’ ... to avoid a will upon that ground the delusion must be an insane delusion, and that the will was the product of that delusion.” (Johnson v. Johnson, 105 Md. 81, 85 , 65 Atl. 918 , 121 Am. St. Rep. 570 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pyle v. Millar
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.