State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Cutts v. Casey (1971), State v. Johnson (1974)
34 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 Mobley v. . Griffin · Spartan Equipment Co. v. Air Placement Equipment Co. · Vogel v. Reed Supply Company · Vogel v. Reed Supply Company · North Carolina State Highway Commission v. Nuckles
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general purpose of the Torrens system is to secure by a decree of court, or other similar proceedings, a title impregnable against attack; to make a permanent and complete record of the exact status of the title with the certificate of registration showing at a glance all liens, encumbrances, and claims against the title; and to protect the registered owner against all claims or demands not noted on the book for the registration of titles.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“continuous, adverse, hostile, under known and visible lines and boundaries, and exclusive during the statutory period under a claim of title to the land occupied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rely upon the strength of his own title,”
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.