Johnson v. Norfolk’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2007
2 district · 21 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 Landau v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Fair Mercantile Co. v. Union-May-Stern Co. · Boekelheide v. Snyder · Nilsson v. Krueger · Ford v. Robinson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law favors the compromise and settlement of disputed claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kroupa v. Kroupa
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.