Johnson v. Aldi, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2016
12 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 King v. Unidynamics Corp. · Young v. Kansas City Power and Light Co. · Papineau v. Baier · Property Exchange & Sales, Inc. v. King · Fravel v. Guaranty Land Title
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court awards damages under Rule 84.19 with great caution and then only where such damages will serve `(1) to prevent congestion of the appellate court dockets with meritless cases which, by their presence, contribute to delaying resolution of meritorious cases and (2) to compensate respondents for the expenses they incur in the course of defending these meritless appeals.'”
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.