Johnson v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1990
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 Pettit v. Stuttgart Normal Institute
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.
“Where deed conveyed land to a religious organization as a gift for location of a school and provided that if use of land for school purposes ceased the land should revert to grantor, the deed conveyed a `determinable, base or qualified fee' and land reverted eo instanti to grantor when it had ceased to be used for school purposes, and it was not necessary for grantor to re-enter in order to regain title.”
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.