Johnson v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1990 · most notably FMC Corp. v. Brown (1990), FMC Corp. v. Brown (1988)
27 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 Steinkuehler v. Wempner · Barr v. Sumner · Roller v. Kling · Dunn v. State · Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. Glover
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If all persons against whom a verdict has been returned file a motion for a new trial assigning the same causes therefor, either jointly or severally, and a ruling is had and exceptions taken by all parties against whom the ruling is made, either jointly or severally, the question is presented to this court on an assignment of errors, whether made by one or all of the parties excepting to such ruling, either in a joint or a separate assignment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ... If by an instruction the burden of proof is placed on the wrong party the judgment will be reversed. . . .” Johnson v. Samuels (1916), 186Ind. 56, 62, 114 N. E. 977 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deckard v. Adams
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.