Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Trujillo v. Serrano (1994), Widener v. DISTRICT COURT OF CTY. OF JEFFERSON (1980)
30 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 Crump v. Hill · Adams v. Tatsch · Reed v. Fish Engineering Corporation · Keil v. Wilson · Chesher v. Shafter Lake Clay Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A word of caution is indicated. Although we adopt a position of liberality, counsel desiring or attempting to appeal should comply with the rules as promulgated and not rely on the court to ove" look departures therefrom. In other words, we propose to consider nonjurisdictional deviation from the rules in each case as it arises. So far as jurisdictional defects are concerned there can he no exercise of discretion. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Since this appeal involves the loss of a muniment of title, we must determine whether there is strong and conclusive evidence of the existence of, the loss of, and the contents of the deed in question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griego v. Roybal
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.