Johnson v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably State v. Smallwood (2007), Novak v. Dow (1970)
2 district · 26 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 Barker v. St. Louis County · Helbush v. Helbush · Collins v. Superior Court · State v. Elmore · Guille v. Wong Fook
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The jurisdiction of the court, to hear and determine actions in replevin instituted pursuant to this statute, is dependent upon the issuance and service of the writ which brings under the control of the court the property for the purpose of rendering a judgment in accordance with the object and purpose of the statute, viz.: To determine the right to the immediate possession of the property, and damages for its unlawful caption or detention. * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * substantive law, speaking broadly, is that which creates duties, rights, and obligations * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Armijo
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.