Johnson v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1996
1 federal appellate · 7 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule is strict and inflexible that a plaintiff has no right of action for damages for breach of contract, where he himself has breached the contract.” Johnson v. Hoffman, 130 Va. 335 .”
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.