Johnson v. Greiner’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1992 · most notably City of Raton v. Sproule (1967), State Ex Rel. State Park & Recreation Commission v. New Mexico State Authority (1966)
32 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 Johnson v. Harrison · State v. Ingalls · Lanigan v. Town of Gallup · State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Mirabal · State v. Miller
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is necessary is that act should embrace some one general subject; and by this is meant, merely, that all matters treated of should fall under some one general idea, be so connected with or related to each other, either logically or in popular understanding, as to be parts of, or germane to, one general subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gellert v. State
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.