Cornett v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2021
2 federal appellate · 14 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 34 Cal. App. 3d 858 - Merritt v. Reserve Insurance · 122 Wis. 2d 94 - Helmbrecht v. St. Paul Insurance · Havert v. Caldwell · Phillips v. Clancy · Creighton v. Caylor-Nickel Hospital, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think it prejudicial to one party for a judge to testify as an expert witness on behalf of the other party with respect to matters that took place before him in his judicial capacity. In such instance the judge appears to be throwing the weight of his position and authority behind one of two opposing litigants."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the judge hearing the underlying action should not testify in a subsequent legal malpractice action.”
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.