In Re Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2011
15 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 Munn v. Illinois · Lone Star Gas Co. v. State · Colden v. Alexander · Schleich v. Butterfield · State v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
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.
““Whenever an attack on the constitutionality of a statute is presented for determination, we start with the presumption that such statute is valid and that the legislature has not acted unreasonably or arbitrarily in enacting the statute . The burden rests on the individual who challenges the Act to establish its unconstitutionality ... If a statute is capable of two constructions, one of which sustains its validity, the court will give to it that interpretation which upholds the statute . . . (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: Those which are Legislative to one, those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judicial to another; and no person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly attached to either of the others, except in the instances herein expressly permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pogue v. Duncan“a transcript of the evidence ... the reporter shall make up such transcript and shall require as compensation therefor a reasonable amount, subject to the approval of the judge of the court if objection is made [to the fees] ... provided, however, that the Supreme Court of Texas under its rulemaking authority shall provide for the duties and fees of court reporters in all civil judicial proceedings, except as provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pogue v. Duncan
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.