Potomac Edison Co. v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Potts v. Armour & Co. (1944), Brehm v. Lorenz (1955)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Manley v. State of Georgia · West Virginia Central & Pittsburg R. Co. v. State Ex Rel. Fuller · Strasburger v. Vogel · Carroll v. Boston Elevated Railway 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fishery biologist’s attempt to grasp a live eel in algaed waters”); Potomac Edison Co. v. Johnson, 160 Md. 33 , 152 A. 633 (1930) ("It adds nothing to the law, has no meaning which is not more clearly expressed for us in English, and brings confusion to our legal discussions. It does not represent a doctrine, is not a legal maxim, and is not a rule”
2 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.