Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2021
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Johnson v. Johnston · Wilson v. Bombeck · Christy v. Springs · St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. v. Olson · Marshall v. Ward
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... whenever one is prevented from exercising his legal remedy by some paramount authority, the time during which he is thus prevented from doing so is not to be counted against him in determining whether the statute of limitation has barred his right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““In our opinion, the continuity of her adverse possession was broken. The general rule is that the bringing of an action involving the title to the land will interrupt the running of the statute of limitations. 1 Am.Jur. 891, § 170, and 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, p. 723, § 153 et seq. It is proper to say at this point that this particular issue seems to be new in this state, and that the decisions of the courts of other states are not harmonious.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurst v. Stowers““. . . Generally, under our procedure one must be in possession or must seek possession when it is sought to establish title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Pearson
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.