Johnson v. Barclay’s Empirical Analysis
1837
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1958
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The justice refused a trial by jury. In doing so, the justice was right. Convictions before a justice were in practice in this state long before the constitution [of 1776] was formed —by the twenty-second article of that instrument, the trial by jury was to ‘remain confirmed’ as part of the law of this [then] colony; but it was not introduced as a new mode of trial in all cases — it was adopted, or rather continued, as it was then used in England and in this colony, and was not at that time, either there or here, resorted to in cases of summary proceedings and convictions for petty offences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katz v. Eldredge
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.