Pickens v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 361 - County of Sonoma v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission (1985), 65 Cal. 2d 185 - Barber v. Blue (1966)
33 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on State v. Carroll · Western Metal Supply Co. v. Pillsbury · Pacific Telephone Etc. Co. v. Eshleman · State Bar of California v. Superior Court · People v. Kempley
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but he ha[d] no power as a judicial officer until the happening of a contingency, namely, his assignment and voluntary acceptance thereof as a judge of the . . . court. That assignment [did] not prolong his term of office. It merely ha[d] the effect of vesting in him the powers of a judge of the . . . court during the period specified in the assignment.”
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.