Johnson v.’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 206 · 1817
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1940
2 federal appellate · 5 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And in ascertaining a place to be found by its distance from another place, the vague words ‘about,’ or ‘nearly,’ and the like, are to be discarded, if there are no other words rendering it necessary to retain them; and the distance mentioned is to be taken positively.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ingelson v. Olson
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.