Johnson v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1938 · most notably Young v. Vail (1924), Barnard v. Huff (1930)
36 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jurisdiction over persons who have become liable on the debt is not obligatory, but is only permissive. When justice requires that the party shall have a chance to defend himself at law, or to seek redress in 'any other form against his liability, courts have refused a personal decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webber v. Lawrence
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.