Johnson v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1986
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · Hall v. . New York Telephone Co. · Zartner v. George · Fitzpatrick v. Rose Donahue Realty Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A child beginning to toddle will walk deliberately into the fire, off the balcony, or out the door; one two or three years old will put his hand into a live electric fan, on a hot stove or into the machine belt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crutchfield v. Adams“"It is a well known fact that a mortar box will lure children of tender years while it would repel those of more mature years."”
1 later decision 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.