Johnson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1939
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases where it shall be necessary to make any persons defendants to any bill, and the names of all or any of them shall be unknown to the complainant, and he shall annex to his bill an affidavit of his want of knowledge of the names of such persons, and that their residence is, as he verily believes, not in this state, proceedings may be had against them without naming them, and the court shall make such order respecting notice and the publication thereof as they may deem proper.””
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.