Johnson v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2005 · most notably Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933), DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991)
2 district · 78 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 Haven v. Missouri Railroad · Pioneer Mining Co. v. Bannack Gold Mining Co. · Black v. Griggs · 101 Cal. App. 388 - Lambert v. Kamp · Michael v. Curtis
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an award of nominal damages for the plaintiff in the nature of a verdict for the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no allowance for the pain or the physical injuries suffered which are substantial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]ominal damages mean no damages. They exist only in name and not in amount”
2 later decisions 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.