Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 488 · 1959
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably Brown v. Brown (1981), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Lawrenson (1964)
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Hyndman v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Glenn L. Martin Co. · Block v. Milwaukee Street Railway Co. · Mize v. Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The lower Court correctly held that the evidence of the changes at the top of the gates in question, made after the accident, was properly admitted, not as evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant, but solely for the purpose of showing the practicability of this additional safeguard. We see no error in this procedure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The construction of the substation fence and gates * * * provided such safeguards as would prevent injury to a small child of ordinary and normal instincts, habits and training, and such as would be constructed by an ordinarily prudent person taking into consideration all of the risks involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ustomary practice is not ordinary care; it is but evidence of ordinary care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.