Johnson v. Lambotte’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably People in Interest of MM (1986), 45 Wis. 2d 536 - Breunig v. American Family Insurance (1970)
2 district · 29 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case the mental incompetent was 'otherwise represented’ by well qualified lawyers of long experience at the bar. In such case the appointment of- a guardian ad litem was not necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gann v. Burton
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.