Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.2d 930 · 1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2010
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Boseman v. Connecticut General Life Insurance · Sanders v. Armour Fertilizer Works · Garabrant v. Burns · Kelley v. McDonald · Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Quilty
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize it to be well settled that * * * if the facts and circumstances were such as to show that the Insurance Company before the death of the insured waived strict compliance with the requirements in the policy, equity will treat the change as having been made under the maxim that `equity will treat as having been done that which should have been done.'”
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.