Johnson v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2010
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 Guilliams v. Koonsman · Trautz v. Lemp · Bergin v. Bergin · Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children of Texas v. Stahl · Stewart v. Selder
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“III. DISPOSITION OF ESTATE A. I give, devise[,] and bequeath all of the rest, residue!,] and remainder of my estate to my children, FRANK E. FEILD, JOHN (JACK) FEILD, and MARY FEILD JARVIS, in equal shares; provided, however, that if a child of mine shall not then survive me, but should leave issue then surviving me, such then surviving issue shall take, per stirpes, the share that such deceased child would have taken by surviving me, or if none if then living, then said share shall be distributed, in equal shares, to my then living children or their issue per stirpes, or if none of my descendants is then living, then said share shall be distributed as provided in the paragraph below.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jarvis v. Feild
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.