Ralls v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably Henderson v. Henderson (1923), Peters Mineral Land Co. v. Hooper (1922)
80 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 Colton v. Colton · Collister v. . Fassitt · Duncan v. De Yampert · Bruce v. Bissell · Smith v. Smith
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this state the rule has been long declared that apparently conflicting clauses must, if possible, be so reconciled as to make each operative, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Springer 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.