Winston v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably 17 Cal. 2d 23 - Elliott v. McCombs (1941), Romanchuk v. Plotkin (1943)
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Peck v. Conway · Huttemeier v. . Albro · Phoenix Ins. Co. v. . Continental Ins. Co. · Dennis v. Wilson · Inhabitants of Winthrop v. Fairbanks
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Exactly how this could have been done is not suggested. The easement is an incorporeal hereditament and not taxable. The strip used for alley purposes seems to have been assessed with the balance of the tract described in appellant’s deed and to which he held the fee, and properly so, for there was but one parcel or lot of land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alvin v. Johnson
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.