Johnson v. Flatness’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2003
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.
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Bohannan · Reynolds, Exrx. v. Williams, Exec. · Mathews v. Tobias · White v. Smith · Garren v. Shook
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.
““9-202. Who may not testify. — The following persons cannot be witnesses : ****** “3. Parties or assignors of parties to an action or proceeding, or persons in whose behalf an action or proceeding is prosecuted against an executor or administrator, upon a claim or demand against the estate of a deceased person, as to any matter of fact occurring before the death of such deceased person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Thomas
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.