Johnson v. Murray Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1978 · most notably Ford Motor Co. v. Mathis (1963), Weakley v. Fischbach & Moore, Inc. (1975)
12 federal appellate · 14 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 Robideaux v. Hebert · Forrest v. Durnell · Perez v. Rabaud · Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Davis · Ogus, Rabinovich & Ogus Co. v. Foley Bros. Dry Goods 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The contract expressly stated that it was a lease and used the term `lessors' and `lessees' to define the relationship of the parties. The language used in the contract is plain and unambiguous. The rental provided was for a definite sum, payable in a definite manner and at a definite time; the amount being measured by the number of bails of cotton ginned during the leased term." * * * "The language of the contract is plain and unambiguous, and is a lease creating the relation of landlord and tenant between the parties. The relation of landlord and tenant is established where the owner of the land or tenement for compensation, `consents to the occupancy thereof by another and the latter holds in recognition or insubordination to the title of the former'." (at page 923).'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A manufacturer who fails to exercise reasonable care in the manufacture of a chattel which, unless carefully made, he should recognize as involving an unreasonable risk of causing substantial bodily harm to those who lawfully use it for a purpose for which it is manufactured and to those whom the supplier should expect to be in the vicinity of its portable use, is subject to liability for bodily harm caused to them by its lawful use in a manner and for a purpose for which it is manufactured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The contract expressly stated that it was a lease and used the term `lessors' and `lessees' to define the relationship of the parties. The language used in the contract is plain and unambiguous. The rental provided was for a definite sum, payable in a definite manner and at a definite time; the amount being measured by the number of bails of cotton ginned during the leased term.”
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.