Johnson v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Snodgrass v. Snodgrass (1924), Maynard v. Hustead (1939)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Hathaway v. . Payne · Gaylord v. Gaylord · Riegel v. Riegel · Ackman v. Potter · Martin v. Flaharty
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he real test of delivery is this: Did the grantor by his acts or words, or both, intend to divest himself of title? If so, the deed is delivered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where one who has the mental power to alter his intention, and the physical power to destroy a deed in his possession, dies without doing either, there is, it seems to us, but little reason for saying that his deed shall be inoperative, simply because during life he might have done that which he did not do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shaffer v. Smith
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.