Posey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1964
24 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 Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern Railroad v. Ryan · Paul v. Western Distributing Co. · Butler v. Milner · State v. Frey · Ward v. Grant
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has always been the rule that if a trial judge permits the verdict to stand he must approve it upon his own independent judgment and not upon that of the jurors. [Citing cases.] If that were not the rule there would be no purpose in the wholesome requirement that in order for a verdict to stand it must not only have the approval of the jury but also the approval of the trial court.” (p. 745.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Lloyd
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.