Johnson v. Microsoft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Sullivan v. DB Investments, Inc. (2011), Whitaker v. M.T. Automotive, Inc. (2006)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 138 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 Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · State Ex Rel. Hanson v. Guernsey County Board of Commissioners · Hambleton v. R.G. Barry Corp. · 133 Ohio St. 520 - Hummel v. Hummel
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has and retains money or benefits which in justice and equity belong to another.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he CSPA defines 'unfair or deceptive consumer sales practices' as those that mislead consumers about the nature of the product they are receiving, while 'unconscionable acts or practices' relate to a supplier manipulating a consumer's understanding of the nature of the transaction at issue.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“common-law remedy designed to prevent one from retaining property to which he is not justly entitled,”
8 later decisions 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.