Foster v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably 46 Tex. Civ. App. 363 - Cocke v. T. N. O. R. R. Co. (1907), United States v. Rogers (1981)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Johnson's [defendant's] evidence failed to connect him with the sovereignty of the soil, and for that reason failed to show that he had a superior title to that of Foster [plaintiff].”
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.