Johnston v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1955
7 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 Lloyd v. Kirkwood · Stephenson v. Thompson · Maxwell v. Maxwell · Cartwright v. Wise
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ But the complainant was clearly an incompetent witness. The opposite party defended as heir of her deceased mother, and he testified in his own behalf and at his own instance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spencer v. Terrel
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.