Johnson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1954
10 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 Samson v. Beale · Nelson v. Title Trust Co. · Yarnall v. Knickerbocker Co. · O'Daniel v. Streeby · Stanton v. St. Michell
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.
““that is, as to identification of the property, . . . this seemingly upon the theory that an agency authority to find a purchaser necessarily means authority on the part of the agent to point out and identify the property to the prospective purchaser, recognizing, however, that this is quite a different thing from an agent’s untrue representation as to the quality of the property, as to its earning power or as to what is capable of being done with it.””
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.