State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2002 · most notably Bacus v. Lake County (1960), Porter v. Investors Syndicate (1932)
2 district · 31 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 John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Packard v. Banton · Buck v. Kuykendall · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Goodrich Transit 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The powers of the government of' this State are divided into three distinct departments: The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial, and no person or collection of persons charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any powers properly belonging to either of the others, except as in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.””
2 later decisions 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.