Johnson v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1971
16 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 Yauger v. Taylor · Ashe-Carson Co. v. Bonifay · Thurlow v. Berry · Emens v. Stephens · Marshall v. Rogers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that affirmative relief can be granted only on a cross-bill. Marshall v. Rogers, 230 Ala. 305 , 160 So. 865 ; 8 Ala.Dig., Equity, ©^l96.” [Emphasis ours] Johnson v. Green, 259 Ala. 511, 513 , 66 So.2d 768, 770 . Sturdivant v. Sturdivant, 276 Ala. 390 , 162 So.2d 484 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. James
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.