Johnson v. Radde’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Cherne Industrial, Inc. v. Grounds & Associates, Inc. (1979), Rico v. State (1991)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 21 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 Bennett v. Storz Broadcasting Co. · 9 Wis. 2d 487 - Mendelson v. Blatz Brewing Co. · Benson Cooperative Creamery Ass'n v. First District Ass'n · Carnes v. St. Paul Union Stockyards Co. · McDonald v. Stewart
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justification is the most common affirmative defense to an action for interference. It is employed to denote the presence of exceptional circumstances which show that no tort was in fact committed and lawful excuse which excludes actual or legal malice.”
4 later decisions 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.