Johnson v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Bowen v. CONSTRUCTORS EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY (1973), Greene v. Nichols (1968)
32 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 Bundy v. . Powell · Wall v. . Bain · Pinnix v. . Griffin · Helmstetler v. Duke Power Co. · Johnson v. . R. R.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 25 C. J.S., Damages, p. 514, it is said: A person is not deprived of the right to recover damages because of inability to labor or transact business in the future, because of the fact that at the time of the injury he is not engaged in any particular employment. . . . The fact that a woman attends merely to household duties will not deprive her of a right to recover for loss of earning capacity.’ In Rodgers v. Boynton, 315 Mass. 279 , 52 N.E. 2d 576 , 151 A.L.R. 475 , the Court said: Tt is to be noted that the plaintiff’s wife recovered damages for such diminution in earning power as the auditor found was due to the injury. Her ability to work belonged to her; and if her capacity to work was lessened by her injury, then she alone was entitled to recover the value of that part of her capacity to earn of which she was deprived. Her time was her own. She had a right to work and her earnings belonged to her. Whether she was gainfully employed or not at the time of the injury, she was entitled to damages for any impairment in her capacity to work and earn. Citing cases. She was entitled to have considered in the assessment of her damages her in ability, due to the injury, to perform her household duties, just as she would be entitled to have considered any other restriction, due to the injury, of her activities.’ # * *' It seems that the essential elements of the measure of damages in Rosa Lee Johnson’s case were given. Defendant re quested no further instructions as to damage”
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.