Felton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1970
19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘labor,’ in legal parlance, has a well-defined, understood, and accepted meaning, It implies continued exertion of the more-onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted exertion of muscular force. ‘Labor’ may be business, but it is not necessarily so, and business is not always labor. In legal significance, labor implies toil; exertion producing weariness; manual exertion of a toilsome nature.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Biggers v. Evans““That in all suits to recover for labor actually performed, suit may be brought and maintained where such labor is performed, whether the contract for same be oral or in writing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Biggers v. Evans
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.