Wallinga v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Federated Mutual Insurance Co. v. Litchfield Precision Components, Inc. (1990), City of St. Paul v. Myles (1974)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Anderson v. Theisen · Strobel v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. · Trudeau v. Sina Contracting Co. Inc. · Rustad v. Great Northern Railway Co. · Dennis v. Coleman's Parking & Greasing Stations, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'legal relation arising upon delivery of goods without transference of ownership under an express or implied agreement that the goods be returned' or accounted for.”
2 later decisions 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.