Johnson v. Maxon’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1947
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.
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.
““The ground, and the only ground, for the action [false imprisonment] was that the plaintiff was imprisoned under color of process claimed by him to be void. ... If the process was irregular, or wrongly or improvidently issued . . . and yet was not absolutely void, the imprisonment was not false in any sense adequate to support the charge preferred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weber v. Young
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.