Johnson v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1924
7 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 Thorn v. . Knapp · Southard v. Rexford · Johnson v. . Jenkins
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law as to damages in this class of actions is exceptional, being in some respects analogous to the rules prevailing in actions for torts; and exemplary damages may be awarded upon like grounds as in actions of the latter class.” (Citing authorities.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baumle v. Verde““You have a right to consider the financial condition of the defendant and his social position, and as to what rights and privileges she would have acquired, pecuniarily and socially, if the defendant had performed his contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tamke v. Vangsnes
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.