Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1982
11 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 Frue v. Houghton · Williams v. Hankins · Model Clothing House v. Dickinson · O'Donnell v. Chamberlin · Davis v. Fruita Mercantile Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant’s counsel contend that, as the plaintiff’s demand was not filed with the county court, it is barred by the statute of nonclaim, C.L. § 5331. So far as his rights against the defendant are concerned, it was not necessary for the plaintiff to assert his rights in the probate proceeding. He had an option — a right to purchase — that he did not exercise during the time the estate was being administered. He could have exercised his option while the estate was being administered, in which event he could have enforced the contract against the executor, assuming of course, that he exercised his option while it was still in force ... but he was not obliged to proceed in that way, and he chose not to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Speck v. Anderson
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.