Johnson v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 467 · 1916
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1955 · most notably Ellis v. Cates (1949), Hanson v. Hoffman (1940)
18 federal appellate · 15 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 Johnson v. Towsley · Shepley v. Cowan · Marquez v. Frisbie · Atherton v. Fowler · Rector v. Gibbon
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The Supreme Court of Oklahoma therefore was correct in holding that the findings of the Inspector respecting matters of fact, affirmed on final appeal by the Secretary, were binding upon the courts, in the absence of gross mistake or fraud (neither of which is here present), and that the judicial inquiry is limited to determining whether there was clear error of law that resulted in awarding the preferential right of purchase, and ultimately issuing the patent, to the wrong-party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The lease created a mere estoppel between trespassers. The rights, if they may be called rights, of lessor and lessee alike, were terminated by the force of the agreement. Individual ownership of the land originated with that instrument, and can be only such as by its terms were created. It was competent for Congress, or for the Indian Tribes, with the concurrence of Congress, to deal as they deemed proper with the practical situation resulting from the building of towns by white men within their borders. They chose to confer a preferential right of purchase, at a discount from the appraised value, not upon the ‘occupant,’ or ‘possessor,’ or ‘landlord,’ or ‘tenant,’ but upon ithe owner of the improvements’ other than those of a temporary nature. This did not cut off any pertinent equity, but it rendered all equities impertinent except such as related to the improvements.””
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.