Hill v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Jones v. Wise (1968), Spires v. Nix (1952)
2 district · 27 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 Smith v. Fly · Farmers' Sav. Bank v. Murphree · Hess v. Rudder · Boggs v. Bush · Hodges v. Denny
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the peculiar province of the court of equity, under the prayer -for . general relief, to mold its decree to meet the case -made by the pleadings and proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Cox
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.