Johnson v. . Grenell’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Caples v. Taliaferro (1940), Gifford v. Horton (1909)
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJohnson v. Grenell
Relationships
Relies on Bissell v. . the New York Central R.R. Company · White's Bank of Buffalo v. . Nichols · Haberman v. . Baker
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The grantees of Mrs. Grenell, in this case, had the right to rely upon the application of the rule that a grantor will not be supposed to have reserved the title to the road bounding a grant of lands, if its control ceased to be of importance to him by reason of his having parted with all of his interest in the lands adjoining it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gifford v. Horton
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.