In Re Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Russell v. Sebastian (1914), Sunset Tel. & Tel. Co. v. City of Pasadena (1911)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 City of Atlanta v. Gate City Gas Light Co. · Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. City of Oshkosh · Michigan Telephone Co. v. City of Benton Harbor · People v. Stephens · Inhabitants of Summit v. New York & New Jersey Telephone 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct grant from the people to the persons therein designated of the right to lay pipes in the streets of a city for the purposes specified, without waiting for legislative authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such general regulations as the municipality may prescribe for damages ...”
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.