Johnson v. Wellborn’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1980
6 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 Easterbrook v. Hebrew Ladies Orphan Society · Settegast v. Foley Bros. Dry Goods Co. · Baker v. Henderson · Quatman v. McCray · Baker v. Henderson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The restriction must be enforced as written and can not be stretched, enlarged, extended or changed by construction.” “It is also settled that restrictive covenants are to be construed strictly against the persons seeking to enforce them, and all doubt must be resolved in favor of natural rights and a free use of property and against restrictions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Head v. Thomason
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.