Johnson v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1970
21 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 Birch v. Abercrombie · Griffin v. Russell · Slater v. Advance Thresher Co. · Kayser v. Van Nest · Ploetz v. Holt
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiff of course kneAv of the darkness, and of the fact that the car was being run at a rapid rate of speed. But she had no control over the operator, and was Avithout authority to order or direct that the speed be slackened. She Avas the driver’s guest.””
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.