Twyman v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably District of Columbia v. Walker (1997), 325-343 E. 56TH STREET CORP. v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1995)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 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 Cort v. Ash · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union · Suter v. Artist M.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since Twyman was the only witness to the accident and she admitted that she did not know what had caused her fall, the jury could not reasonably have decided that she fell, for example, because she stepped on a slippery or uneven stair tread — and not simply because she missed a step or lost her balance.... Twyman gave no testimony tying her fall to a defective condition of the stairs other than her bare statement that she set her foot down on the second or third step and fell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless this ... intent can be inferred from the language of the statute, the statutory structure, or some other source, the essential predicate for implication of a private remedy simply does not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.