Johnson v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2002
1 district · 18 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 Lewis v. Holmes · Wade v. . Kalbfleisch · Graham v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Fitzpatrick v. Daily States Publishing Co. · M. L. Byrne & Co. v. L. H. Gardner & Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The obligation resulting from a marriage engagement, or promise of marriage, is personal, and not heritable, because no one but the obligee can enforce its performance, and it can be enforced against no one but the obligor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“since the action for breach of promise [to marry] is an entirely personal action, and not heritable.”
1 later decision 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.