Johnson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Norton v. Lusk (1946), Kendrick v. Boyd (1951)
38 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Ass'n · State v. Rogers · Phœnix Assurance Co. v. Fire Department · State Ex Rel. Day v. Bowles
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The language of the Constitution, 'Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title,' contemplates that in its application the court must not only look at the title but must consider the body of 'Each law' in ascertaining the subject thereof; and if 'the title and the body of the act, construed together, show a single purpose, and relate to a single subject,' and the grant of power is germane to that subject, such act does not offend the Constitution. Judson v. City of Bessemer , 87 Ala. 240 , 6 So. 267 , 4 L.R.A. 742 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. A.Z. v. State · Hall v. Underwood““The services of such administrative personnel are as essential to the general scheme of constructing, maintaining and supervising public roads and bridges as is the material that goes into the work or the labor and machinery that applies it.””
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.