Johnson v. Garber’s Empirical Analysis
73 F. 523 · 1896
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2003
8 federal appellate ·
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 Railroad Company v. Lockwood · STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator · Michigan Insurance Bank v. Eldred · North Pennsylvania v. Commercial Nat Bank of Chicago · Thiede v. People of Territory of Utah
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial judge states it to bo tho invariable practice of the court below— well known and acted upon by counsel, though no formal rule to this effect has been adopted by the court — not to require such specific objections to be so taken, but counsel on either side is understood always to have taken the objection to any instruction, or any part of the charge, so that, in subsequently making up the bill of exceptions, lie may take any objection as if the rule of taking It at the time had been fully complied with.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.