Johnston v. Herrin’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1993
13 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 Potter v. Couch · Ducker v. Burnham · Knight v. Pottgieser · Haward v. Peavey · Carper v. Crowl
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The word ‘surviving’ is a part of the description of those who are to take. This marks a distinction between this case and those cited by appellants. ‘Surviving’ is a word of survivorship which describes the gift and the donees and precludes the vesting of the gift until it can be determined who such donees are.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A gift to survivors, which is preceded by a particular estate at the expiration of which the gift is to take effect in possession, will take effect in favor of those, only, who survive the particular estate. Such a remainder is necessarily contingent since it cannot be known until the death of the life tenant who of the testator’s surviving descendants will survive her to take the estate.” (Johnston, 383 Ill. at 605 , 50 N.E.2d at 724 .)”
1 later decision 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.