New York Cent Co v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 310 · 1929
Citation profile
281 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 412 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Berger v. United States (1935), United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1940)
281 federal appellate · 68 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNew York Cent. R. v. Johnson (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brasfield v. United States · Graves v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Mitchum v. State
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 412 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But a trial in court is never, as respondents in their brief, argue this one was, ‘purely a private controversy * * * of no importance to th,e public.’ The state, whose interest it. is the duty of .court and counsel alike to uphold, is concerned that every litigation be fairly and impartially conducted and that verdicts of juries be rendered only on the issues made by the pleadings and the evidence. The public interest requires that the court of its own motion, as is its power and duty, protect suitors in their right to a verdict, uninfluenced by the appeals of counsel to passion or prejudice. See Union Pac. R. Co. v. Field, 8 Cir., 137 F. 14 , 15; Brown v. Swineford, 44 Wis. 282 , 293, 28 Am.Rep. 582 . Where such paramount considerations are involved, the failure of counsel to particularize an exception will not preclude this Court from correcting the error. Brasfield v. United States, 272 U.S. 448 , 450, 47 S.Ct. 135 , 71 L.Ed. 345 .””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at several points, objection was made, overruled, and an exception noted”
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.