Johnson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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 Hinz v. Northland Milk & Ice Cream Co. · Whipple v. Mahler · Peterson v. W. Davis & Sons · Standard Oil Co. v. King · Grady v. Maurice L. Rothschild & Co.
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.
““(a) is possessed of a reasonable defense on the merits, (b) has reasonable excuse for his failure or neglect to answer, (c) has acted with due diligence after notice of the entry of judgment, and (d) that no substantial prejudice will result to the other party.” 265 Minn. 73 , 120 N. W. (2d) 335 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since the plaintiffs cause of action is based on the theory that he entered the contract ⅜ ⅜ * in reliance on false representation made by defendants, the specific denial by defendants that the claimed assertions were made presents a reasonable defense.”
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.