9 Utah 2d 268 - Johnson v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Titan Steel Corp. v. Walton (1966), McGrath v. Wallace Murray Corp. (1974)
6 federal appellate · 40 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 Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · 2 Utah 2d 381 - Coombs v. Perry · Martin v. Stevens · Clay v. Dunford
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * After the jurors have retired to deliberate their privacy is sacrosanct. It is their- exclusive prerogative to determine the facts in their deliberations. For this purpose the privacy of the jury room should be preserved from influence from outside sources or any semblance thereof. ¡ft ijc ft”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The doctrine of assumption of risk in many instances overlaps into the field of contributory negligence; but it must be distinguished and applied only in the proper case, that is, when the question involves the reasonableness of plaintiff’s voluntary action in the face of a known danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A traveler approaching a signal-controlled intersection with the light in her favor has the right of way and can rely on it until something appears to indicate it is not safe to do so.””
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.