Johnson v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 1980 · most notably Lee v. Baltimore Hotel Co. (1939), King Smith v. Kansas City Life Insurance Co. (1942)
56 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 Gannon v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · Rodan v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Marx v. Hart · Citizens' National Bank v. Donnell · Metropolitan Lead & Zinc Mining Co. v. Webster
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an honest attempt, in the exercise by the judge of his duty and power to see that justice is done, to establish a legal right”
1 later decision 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.