Ritholz v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1980
23 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 United States v. Carolene Products Co. · Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Borden's Farm Products Co. v. Baldwin · Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad · Chastleton Corporation v. Sinclair
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Matters of common knowledge are not limited to those matters of which practically everyone has knowledge. In a complex society such as ours there are in many fields of activity matters which are within the knowledge of all those who are associated with the activity of which the general public knows little or nothing. For instance, in the railroad business hundreds of thousands of people are employed. No doubt many things are matters of common knowledge and are assumed and acted upon by those engaged in the business daily if not hourly. In a case involving some phase of the railroad business a court might well inform itself as to those matters. It may do this by resort to encyclopedias, authoritative works upon the subject, reports of committees, scientific bodies, and any source of information that is generally considered accurate and reliable, or it may as in State ex rel. Carnation M. P. Co. v. Emery, supra, resort to a judicial investigation of the facts. As ordinarily considered, taking judicial notice does not include these methods of obtaining knowledge of matters of which the court may take judicial notice but of which it has no knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When it appears from the information at hand that the facts are such as to render the conclusion to be drawn therefrom fairly debatable, the matter is for the determination of the Legislature and the court may not set up its judgment against a legislative determination.”
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.