Johnson v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2001
5 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 A. J. Chromy Construction Co. v. Commercial Mechanical Services, Inc. · Youngstown Mines Corp. v. Prout · Firoved v. General Motors Corporation · Ellis v. Minneapolis Commission on Civil Rights · Hauser v. Mealey
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expresses the idea that as to certain matters and circumstances, people who are not parties to an action but who have interests affected by the judgment as to certain issues in the action are treated as if they were parties.”
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.