Johnson v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1997
8 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 Williams' Adm'r v. Union Bank & Trust Co. · Steele v. Stanley · Sammons Et Ux. v. Warfield Natural Gas Co. · Blue Grass Coal Corp. v. Combs · Ewell v. Best
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of the agreement’s denomination ..., under Kentucky law ‘what is commonly termed a coal mining lease is regarded as the conveyance of an estate or interest in the minerals as land unless the terms of the instrument require a different construction.’ (Johnson v. Coleman, supra, at page 349).”
2 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.