Johnson v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Link v. Link (1971), Foster v. Winston-Salem Joint Venture (1981)
9 federal appellate · 58 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 Hunt v. Bradshaw · Wells v. Clayton · Rural Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. H. C. Jones Construction Co. · General Tire and Rubber Co. v. Distributors, Inc. · Bondurant v. Mastin
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If an employee is negligent while acting in the course of employment and such negligence is the proximate cause of injury to another, the employer is liable in damages under the doctrine of respondeat superior, notwithstanding the fact that the employer, himself, exercised due care in the supervision and direction of the employee."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the defendant must have foreseen the injury in the exact form in which it occurred, but requires only that in the exercise of reasonable care the defendant or defendants might have foreseen that some injury would result from his act or omission or that consequences of a generally injurious nature might have been expected.”
4 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.