Johnson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1981
11 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 Shnier v. Vahlberg · Chamberlain v. Davis · Taylor v. Lawrence · State for Use of Board of County Com'rs of Pontotoc County Ex Rel. Braly v. Ford · In Re Hicks' Estate
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear that the effect of a valid resale deed, under the preceding and present statutes, is to divest the former owner of all interest in the property, and to vest a perfect fee simple title in the purchaser, regardless of whether the county or a third person is the purchaser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kasner v. Wilson
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.