Johnson v. Weiner’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Zinermon v. Burch (1990), Courson v. McMillian (1991)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 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 S. H. Kress & Co. v. Powell · Fisher and Fisher v. Payne · Dodson v. Solomon
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the unlawful restraint of a person against his will, the gist of which action is the unlawful detention of the plaintiff and the deprivation of his liberty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be liable in an action for false imprisonment, one must have personally and actively participated therein, directly or by indirect procurement. All those who, by direct act or indirect procurement, personally participate in or proximately cause the false imprisonment and unlawful detention are liable therefor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[v]oid process will not constitute legal authority within this rule.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.