Johnson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1984 · most notably Hayes v. O'Brien (1894), Bevans v. Murray (1911)
2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Murphy v. Lockwood · Rose v. Choteau
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decree in such cases settles the rights of the parties before the court with respect to some contract, conveyance, trust or fraudulent conduct, and by attachment or other coercive means compels the offending party to comply with the requirements of the decree or simply declares the transaction complained of void, and thereby removes an obstruction to the enforcement of his legal remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a court of equity attempts to act directly upon property, whether real or personal, by its decree, it is, in the absence of statutory regulation, essential to the power of the court to act that the property to be affected be within the territorial jurisdiction of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.