Johnson v. Swords Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1975
9 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 Chicago West Division Railway Co. v. Becker · Lowden v. Wilson · Quincy Horse Railway & Carrying Co. v. Gnuse · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Chancellor · George J. Cooke Co. v. Miller Brewing Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The rule also is that the res gestae generally remains with the locus in qtto and does not follow the parties about after the principal act is completed. . . . Usually the interval between the statement and the exciting cause of which it is deemed a natural and, to a certain extent, an inevitable form of expression is brief. If it has ceased to be spontaneous, it then falls back into the general class of narratives and thus becomes improper. . . .””
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.