Johnson v. Phinney’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.2d 303 · 1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2012
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co. · State Ex Rel. Dussault v. Kilburn · State v. Coats · State Ex Rel. Green v. One 5¢ Fifth Inning Base Ball MacHine · Stanley v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) any so-called ‘slot machine’ or any other 'machine or mechanical device an essential part of which is a drum or reel with insignia thereon and (A) which when operated may deliver, as a result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or (B) by the operation of which a person may become entitled to receive, as the result of the application of an element •of chance, any money or property; or “(2) any machine or mechanical device designed and manufactured to operate by means of insertion of a coin, token, or similar object and designed and manufactured so that when operated it may deliver, as the result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property * * * ” 15 U.S.C.A. § 1171 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“With respect to the element of chance, the authorities are in general agreement that if such element is present and predominates in the determination of a winner, the fact that players may exercise varying degrees of skill is immaterial; and the game or device is a lottery.”); National Football League v. Governor, supra at 1385 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.