Johnson v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1942
16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellants were entitled to represent their mother and to take her share of the proceeds of the benefit certificate held by their grandmother.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The contract in the case at bar and the benefit certificate issued by the society constitute an ordinary insurance policy.”
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.