Johnson v. Archibald’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 1964 · most notably Davis v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. (1940), Blake v. Pure Oil Co. (1937)
2 federal appellate · 67 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.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the calls in a grant when applied to the land correspond with each other, parol evidence is not admissible to vary them by showing that in point of fact they are not the calls of the survey as actually made. But if when so applied they disclose a latent ambiguity — that is to say, if they conflict with each other — then extrinsic evidence may be resorted to in order to determine the conflict and to show the land actually intended to be embraced by the calls of the survey.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diffie v. White
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.