Johnson v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1922
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“:‘This was such an'accident as would give jurisdiction to a court of equity to grant relief, provided the party complaining was otherwise entitled to it. . . . The accident alone does not warrant the interference of equity.. The judgment must appear to give the winning party an,advantage which a court'of equity would not permit him to hold, in order to warrant its extraordinary interference with the proceedings at law.. It grants relief against judgments in aid of justice, not as a recompense for the accident; and, although .the law court may have committed error upon the trial, if the judgment is not against conscience, it will not meddle with it. (Cases supra.) The accident, or some other ground of equitable interposition, and the injustice of the judgment, must concur.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bingman v. Clark
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.