Johnson v. Salem Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America (1995), Potter v. Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. (1997)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 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 Dolson v. Anastasia · Buckelew v. Grossbard · Bexiga v. Havir Manufacturing Corp. · Michalko v. Cooke Color & Chemical Corp. · Cepeda v. Cumberland Engineering Company, Inc.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`of reason and fairness may entertain differing views as to the truth of testimony, whether it be uncontradicted, uncontroverted or even undisputed.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he weight to which an expert opinion is entitled can rise no higher than the facts and reasoning upon which the opinion is predicated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here the uncontradicted testimony of a witness, interested or otherwise, is unaffected by any conflicting inferences to be drawn from it and is not improbable, extraordinary or surprising in its nature, or there is no other ground for hesitating to accept it as the truth, there is no reason for denying the verdict dictated by such evidence.”
3 later decisions 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.