Johnson v. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
3 F. 22 · 1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1952
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Discovery or evidence obtained from a party or witness by means of a‘ judicial proceeding’ includes only facts or papers which the party or witness, is compelled by subpoena, interrogatory, or other judicial process to disclose, whether he will or no; and is inapplicable to testimony voluntarily given, or to documents voluntarily produced.””
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.