Simpson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2025
22 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 3 Cal. 3d 875 - Foreman & Clark Corp. v. Fallon · Dlug v. Wooldridge · Roemer v. Green Pastures Farms, Inc. · Knudson v. Weeks · Moonves v. Hill
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, where the sale is in gross the parties are considered to have assumed the risk of a deficiency or excess in the quantity of land conveyed. [Citations omitted.] However, where the sale is by a specific quantity the purchaser is generally entitled to relief for the deficiency.”
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.