Johnson v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Ragsdale v. Kennedy (1974), Forbis v. Neal (2007)
9 federal appellate · 86 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 Calloway v. Wyatt · Cofield v. Griffin · Brooks v. Ervin Construction Company · Harding v. Southern Loan & Insurance · Roberson v. Williams
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the circumstances are such that a plaintiff seeking relief from alleged fraud must have known the truth, the doctrine of reasonable reliance will prevent him from recovering for a misrepresentation which, if in point of fact made, did not deceive him.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[T]he representation, its falsity, scienter, deception, and injury. The representation must be definite and specific; it must be materially false; ... it must be made with fraudulent intent; it must be reasonably relied on by the other party; and he must be deceived and caused to suffer loss.’ ” (Citations omitted.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“But the law does not require a prudent [person] to deal with everyone as a rascal and demand covenants to guard against the falsehood of every representation which may be made as to facts which constitute material inducements to a contract. There must be a reasonable reliance upon the integrity of [people] or the transactions of business, trade and commerce could not be conducted with that facility and confidence which are essential to successful enterprise and ... prosperity.”
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.