Johnson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 federal appellate · 12 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This inscription fails, however, to make out the case claimed. It was only a declaration of a purpose — or could amount to nothing more — as it could not have been operative as a conveyance. It cannot be made to mean that when given it should not be accounted for. If a man of Mr. Johnson’s intelligence had intended this purpose, it would have been perfectly easy to say so, and that in apt and proper words to express his meaning, and the fact he has not done so in the deed together with the other circumstances of the case we have referred to, is totally inconsistent with the existence of such a purpose in his own mind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But conceding it is not too remote, for the sake of the argument, it is still not inconsistent with the idea, that this valuable farm was intended to be given and its profits enjoyed in advance of such a gift to his children, and these advantages might well be a reward for services rendered by a dutiful daughter. This might well have been done, with no intention to express anything on the real question as to whether she should account for the actual value of the farm after his decease.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the course of my business I have become the owner of the farm on which she now resides, and I intend it for her as some compensation for her services rendered during my administration. ’ ’”
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.