Sale v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Black v. Littlejohn (1985), In Re Watson (1968)
52 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 Erickson v. Starling · Watson Industries, Inc. v. Shaw · Young v. . Whitehall Co. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Phillips · Victory Cab Co. v. City of Charlotte
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the popular use of `or' and `and' is so loose, and so frequently inaccurate, that it has infected statutory enactments. For this reason, their strict meaning is more readily departed from than that of other words. In this respect, it is clear that the courts have power to change and will change `and' to `or' and vice versa, whenever such conversion is required by the context, or is necessary to harmonize the provisions of a statute and give effect to all its provisions, or to save it from unconstitutionality, or, in the general, to effectuate the obvious intention of the legislature.”
2 later decisions 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.