State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1978
8 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 10 E.H. Smith 423 - In Re the Appraisal for Taxation, Under the Act in Relation to Taxable Transfers of Property, of the Estate of Gould · In Re the Appraisal, Under the Transfer Tax Act, of the Estate of Cook · Cappon v. O'Day · Goldberg v. . Markowitz · In re Estate of Curtis
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I, Robert S. Johnston, ... of my own accord and freely, entirely abdicate and renounce whatsoever things to me, even unaware,» may have come or may have been able to come, or could in the future come, whether by right of legacy, or donation or profit. This, my entire abdication, I make in favor of Marquette College, in the city of Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin. And these things I wish to be understood according to the spirit of the constitutions of the Society of Jesus, which I have already embraced as a mother and which I will cherish through all days to come. “Given at Milwaukee, in Marquette College, on the fourteenth day of August, in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine. “Robert S. Johnston, S. J.” “(Duly attested by three witnesses.)””
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.