Johnson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2000
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Sparado v. Baird · Cockrell v. Taylor · Leslie Bros., Inc. v. Roope, Et Ux. · Felkel v. Abernethy · Gray v. Baron
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the agreement between the parties consists of several instruments, it is proper to insist that all of the documents be placed before the court as establishing the rights of the parties thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contract between the parties consists not only of the promissory note but also of the several documents going to make up the composite agreement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.