Johnson v. Stumbo’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Vincent v. Palmer (1941), Foltz v. Struxness (1950)
37 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 Whitney v. Wyman · Anderson v. Jett · Thomas W. Briggs Co. v. Mason · Gay v. Brent · Brooks v. Patterson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of reasonableness is whether the restraint, considering the particular situation and circumstances, is such only as to afford a fair protection to the legitimate interests of the party in favor of whom it is given and not so extensive as to interfere with the interests of the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stiles v. Reda
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.