Johnson v. . Wallis’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1970 · most notably Hopper v. . Hopper (1891), Wedemann v. United States Trust Co. (1932)
5 federal appellate · 20 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 Petersen v. . Chemical Bank · Lawrence v. Lawrence
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, therefore, the defendants were owners of the judgment, and could lawfully contract for its sale. Having done so, they were liable upon that contract, which could be enforced against them, because they made it, and it did not derive its existence from any act or dealing of their testator. We agree, therefore, with the courts below, that the action could be maintained.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sanford v. Story · Sanford v. Story
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.