Johnson v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1982
7 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 Meacham v. Graham · 33 Tex. Civ. App. 116 - Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Tarwater · Eckhardt v. Phillips · Scruggs v. Mayberry · Katzenberger v. Weaver
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be found, upon comparison, that the section of the Code quoted above, in spirit largely, and in text substantially, conforms to the English act, and, as has been held by this court, was passed, as that was, to change this old common-law rule. This is its only effect. It does not in any sense trench upon, or come in conflict with, that other rule announced in Katsenberger v. Weaver, supra ( 110 Tenn. 620 , 75 S.W. 937 ), and the earlier cases upon which that was based.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vickers v. Vickers
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.