Jones v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “the water-line, though it may gradually and imperceptibly change, is just as fixed a boundary in the eye of the law”
• accretions to shore of Lake Michigan resulting from construction of harbors and piers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

39 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hughes v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-11· cited 168×
• Bonelli Cattle Co. v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-17· cited 111×
• Johnston v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1862-02-17· cited 90×
• California Ex Rel. State Lands Commission v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1982-09-09· cited 67×
• Barker v. Coastal Builders, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1954-06-23· cited 55×
• Braddock Jones, in Error v. James G. Soulard
  Supreme Court· 1861-01-18· cited 46×
• Stoner v. Rice
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1889-11-08· cited 25×
• Montgomery v. Shaver
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1901-12-23· cited 24×
• Mexico Beach Corporation v. St. Joe Paper Company
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1957-11-05· cited 23×
• State of California, Ex Rel. State Lands Commission v. United States of America, Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, Sierra Club, Intervenors
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-12-02· cited 19×
• Burke v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-05-23· cited 18×
• Watson v. Price
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-03-03· cited 17×
• Wilson v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1951-10-04· cited 16×
• Smith v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-02-26· cited 14×
• United States v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-15· cited 12×
• Schodde v. Twin Falls Land & Water Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1908-02-03· cited 11×
• Olson Land Co. v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1913-10-25· cited 10×
• Newell v. Leathers
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1897-12-28· cited 10×
• Sherwin v. Bitzer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1906-02-09· cited 9×
• Smith v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1979-03-13· cited 9×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• TUCKER v. Moreland
  Supreme Court· 1836-01-23· cited 95×
• Leonard v. White
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1810-09-15· cited 42×

Other cases named Jones v. Johnston

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Jones v. Johnston
  District of Columbia· 1974-01-09· cited 20×
• Jones v. Johnston
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-03-23· cited 11×
• Jones v. Johnston
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-05-31