Johnson v. Sweat’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2003
7 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 Hope v. Madison · State v. American Sugar Refining Co. · Laenger v. Laenger · Himel v. Connely · In Re Craven
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . ., our later cases make it clear that the common law doctrine of estoppel by judgment is not recognized in Louisiana." Johnson v. Sweat, 265 So.2d 801 at 802 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1972) writ denied 263 La. 105 , 267 So.2d 211 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“judgment dismissing plaintiffs' second suit on an exception of prescription of one year cannot sustain the plea of res judicata in the first suit, which was timely filed and in which no issue is presented as to prescription.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Res Judicata, Matters Which Might Have Been Pleaded”
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.