Johnsen v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Knipfer v. Shaw · Archer v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Cameron v. Union Automobile Insurance · Paine v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. · Pierner v. Mann
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We pass now to Mrs. Johnsen’s action against her son. Though Mrs. Johnsen and Robert were engaged in a joint venture, in an action between them the negligence of one venturer is not imputed to the other. Between such parties their liability to each other is the same as though the driver were the host and the plaintiff the guest and the driver owes to the other the care required of a gratuitous agent.””
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.