Jefferson County v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Tuscaloosa County v. Shamblin (1936), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Hearn (1936)
46 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 David Muskrat v. · Anway v. Grand Rapids Railway Co. · Upshaw v. Eubank · Strobe v. Netherland Co. · Union Trust Co. v. Main & South Streets Holding Corp.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The weight of authority is that, to give the court jurisdiction to render a declaratory judgment, there must be ‘a bona fide existing controversy, with subject-matter and parties in interest in court, and a situation where adequate relief is not presently available through medium of other existing forms of action.’ Union Trust Co. of Rochester v. Main & South Streets Holding Corporation, 245 App.Div. 369 , 282 N.Y.S. 428, 429 (headnote 2); 33 Corpus Juris, p. 1097, § 57.””
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.