Keating v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Christian v. Gray (2003), Fent v. Contingency Review Board (2007)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Lee v. Brown · Brigance v. Velvet Dove Restaurant, Inc. · McCormack v. Oklahoma Publishing Co. · Burdick v. Independent School District No. 52 · Draper v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall extend to a general superintending control over all inferior courts and all Agencies, Commissions and Boards created by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"That the executive power of the Territory of Oklahoma Shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold office for four years and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the president of the United States. The governor shall reside within said Territory; shall be commander-in-chief of the militia thereof; he may grant pardons for offenses against the laws of said Territory; and reprieves for offenses against the laws of the United States, until the decision of the president can be made known thereon; he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under the laws of said Territory, and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. TREAT v. STITT“"The Governor shall commission all officers not otherwise commissioned by law. All commissions shall run in the name and by the authority of the 'State of Oklahoma,' be signed by the Governor, sealed with the Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma, and attested by the Secretary of State. When any office shall become vacant, he shall, unless otherwise provided by law, appoint a person to fill such vacancy, who shall continue in office until a successor shall have been duly elected or appointed, and qualified according to law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. TREAT v. STITT
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.