Johnson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1959
6 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 Tappan Collector v. Merchants' National Bank · Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad v. Reynolds · White River Lumber Co v. State of Arkansas Applegate · State ex rel. Moose v. Kansas City & Memphis Railway & Bridge Co. · Reed v. Bjornson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The tendency is to hold an act not to be a delegation of legislative power in violation of the constitution when the legislature has defined the general policy of the act as far as is reasonably possible and has left to the administrative bodies the adaptation of such policy to the peculiar varying conditions. 18 Minn. L. Rev. 740 , 741.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hassler v. Engberg
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.