Johnson v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2018
6 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 Rushing v. Hooper-McDonald, Inc. · Foust v. Kinney · 361 So. 2d 1060 - Highlands Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Elegante Inns, Inc. · Mattingly v. Houston · Garrett v. Sewell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The plaintiff must have incurred attorneys' fees in the prosecution or defense of a prior action. (2) The litigation must have been against a third party and not against the defendant in the present action. (3) The plaintiff must have become involved in such litigation because of some tortious act of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the natural and proximate consequences of the defendant's wrongful act causes the plaintiff to become involved in litigation with a third person, attorneys' fees and other expenses incurred in such litigation may be recovered as damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of actual damage to property resulting from a trespass, the owner of the property is entitled to nominal damages.”
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.