Johnston v. Standard Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 360 · 1893
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 52 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 434 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith (1915), Patterson v. Hewitt (1904)
117 federal appellate · 52 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Wood v. Carpenter · Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Hammond v. Hopkins · Felix v. Patrick
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 434 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law is well settled that where the question of laches is in issue the plaintiff is chargeable with such knowledge as he may have obtained upon inquiry, provided the facts already known by him were such as to put upon a man of ordinary intelligence the duty of inquiry.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has'been, frequently held that mere institution of a suit does not of itself relieve a person from the charge of laches, and that, if he fail in the diligent prosecution of the action, the consequences are the same as though no action had been begun.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Property worth thousands to-day is worth nothing to-morrow; and that which to-day would sell for $1,000 at its fair value may, by the natural changes of a week, or the energy and courage of desperate enterprise, in the same time be made to yield that much every day. The injustice, therefore, is obvious of permitting one holding the right to assert an ownership in such property to voluntarily await the event, and then decide, when the danger, which is over, has been at the risk of another, to come in and share the profit.””
4 later decisions 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.