Johnson v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1949 · most notably Continental Insurance v. Bair (1917), Leggett v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (1949)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Ray v. Baker · Shirk v. Neible · Bull v. First Nat Bank of Kasson · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Moore · Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Holland
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And where a plaintiff states in his complaint, together with facts constituting a cause of action, other material and relevant facts which are a defense to the cause of action, and does not allege facts avoiding such defense, his complaint will not withstand a demurrer.” (Citing authorities.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Penton v. Canning
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.