Johnson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1989
8 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 Bittner v. Bittner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We find nothing in this will to indicate that R. M. Castleman was unaware that he owned this remainder except the negative fact that he did not specifically dispose of it. If all of a testator’s property is specifically disposed of in the will there would be no need for a residuary clause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Rogers““The residue of my property, real, personal and mixed, and wheresoever situated, which is not herein specifically devised and bequeathed, I here devise and bequeath to my daughter, etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Rogers
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.