Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 25 Cal. App. 4th 11 - Golden West Baseball Co. v. City of Anaheim (1994), Meyer v. Glenmoor Homes, Inc. (1966)
31 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 People v. Ocean Shore Railroad, Inc. · Lux v. Haggin · Boggs v. Merced Mining Co. · Lux v. Haggin · Safway Steel Products, Inc. v. Lefever
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.
“`In general, four things are essential to the application of the doctrine of equitable estoppel: first, the party to be estopped must be apprised of the facts; second, he must intend that his conduct shall be acted upon, or must so act that the party asserting the estoppel had a right to believe it was so intended; third, the other party must be ignorant of the true state of facts; and fourth, he must rely upon the conduct to his injury.'”
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.