State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1991
19 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 33 Cal. App. 624 - People v. Stanley · State v. Lindskog · State v. Clark · State ex rel. Washington v. Hunter · State ex rel. Patterson v. Pickering
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Because at common law the father of an illegitimate child was not liable for its care, maintenance, and support, and because an obligation to provide for such a child's care, maintenance, and support is imposed upon the father by §§ 257.18 to 257.31 (§§ 3261 to 3273 with the amendments thereto appearing in the 1941 Supp.), the obligation is a liability created by statute. State v. Lindskog, 175 Minn. 533 , 221 N.W. 911 ; Olson v. Johnson, 23 Minn. 301 . Whether or not that obligation is a liability created by statute within the meaning of § 541.05(2), (§ 9191[2]), requiring an action `upon a liability created by statute' to be brought within six years, does not necessarily control decision here. "We have laid down the rule in the analogous case, where the obligation was that of the father of a legitimate child. The obligation of a father to provide for the care, support, and education of his legitimate child during its minority is continuing in nature. Krueger v. Krueger, 210 Minn. 144 , 297 N.W. 566 ; State v. Ford, 151 Minn. 382 , 186 N.W. 812 ; State v. Clark, 148 Minn. 389 , 182 N.W. 452 . During the time the obligation continues the father cannot terminate or evade it; much less can he accomplish that result by a violation of the obligation. The statute of limitations does not run against the father's breach or violation of such obligation while it continues. Knutson v. Haugen, 191 Minn. 420 , 254 N.W. 464 . The rule that the statute of limitations does not run until th”
3 later decisions 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.