Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2017
8 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 Davis v. Wachter · Planters' & Merchants' Insurance v. Tunstall · J. M. Card Lumber Co. v. Reed · Hockstein v. Hamilton · Venturi v. Silvio
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To hold in agreement with [the son's] contention that there must have been a delivery of the stock certificate along with his assignment to his mother would be to require an act at once impossible and useless. [The son] could not deliver what he did not hold, possess, or own. He did not possess the stock."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In equity no particular form is essential to the validity of an assignment; it may be in writing or by parol. It is sufficient if there is an intentional transfer or making over of the subject matter, conferring a complete and present right in the assignee."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he determinative question is the equitable ownership of, or title, to the stock.”
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.