Johnston v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘. . . Changes of judge and changes of venue, from the county are provided for in the same statute, and they may be had in any civil action, which, by the statutory definition, means any action for the.- enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress of private wrongs.’ ” ■”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Glasscott v. LaPorte Superior Court · State ex rel. Dunn v. Lake Juvenile Court

2. ““The act in question was held unconstitutional in Roby, Trustee v. Smith et al. (1892), 131 Ind. 342 , 30 N. E. 1093 , and if it was intended to prohibit a citizen of Indiana from delivering property to a trustee in Ohio, under a contract entered into in Ohio, for the benefit of himself and others, who are non-residents of the state of Indiana, its unconstitutionality can scarcely be questioned.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kist v. Coughlin

3. “It is asserted that appellant parted with title to the property in question for the purpose of avoiding taxes, but, since appellant did in fact part with title and control of the property, as she had a legal right to do, her object or purpose is of no importance. Id. 8 N.E.2d at 594 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas Dodge of Highland, Inc. v. State Board of Tax Commissioners