Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably S.V. v. R.V. (1996), Dalrymple v. Brown (1997)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · 85 Ill. 2d 161 - Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos · 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) cases in which the plaintiff claims to have known about the sexual abuse at or before his or her majority, but did not realize that other physical and psychological problems were caused by the molestation (type 1 cases); and (2) cases in which the plaintiff alleges that he or she repressed the memory until shortly before he or she filed suit (type 2 cases).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ll claims or causes of action based on intentional conduct brought by any person for recovery of damages for injury suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse shall be commenced within three years of the act alleged to have caused the injury or condition, or three years of the time the victim discovered or reasonably should have discovered that the injury or condition was caused by said act, whichever expires later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petersen v. Bruen“discovery rule should be adopted only when the risk of stale claims is outweighed by the unfairness of precluding justified causes of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lovelace v. Keohane
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.