Johnson v. Weborg’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Continental Can Company, Inc., a Corporation v. Bernard F. Horton and Leroy L. Wade & Son, Inc., a Corporation (1957), Oddo v. Speedway Scaffold Co. (1989)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Minneapolis St Louis Railroad Company v. Nora Gotschall E · Caddy v. . Interborough Rapid Transit Co. · Stewart v. . Ferguson · Koepp v. National Enameling & Stamping Co. · Penson v. Inland Empire Paper 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All scaffolds, * * * supports or other mechanical contrivances used in the erection, repairing, alteration, * * * of any house, building, * * * shall be erected and constructed in a safe, suitable and proper manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The fact that the statute does not in terms impose civil liability is immaterial. It is not necessary to the maintenance of an action that the statute so expressly provide.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * we hold that plaintiff had a right to rely upon the safe condition of the scaffold provided for him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Baer v. Schaap · Munson v. Duval
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.