Johnson v. Lander’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1961 · most notably In Re Estate of Rogers (1959), Wert v. Phillips (1948)
30 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 Woltz v. First Trust Co. · Heery v. Reed · Griffith v. Robertson · Dubbs v. Haworth · Ayres v. Hull
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not essential that a formal offer and acceptance, in writing or otherwise, be shown. In the absence of more direct evidence the ¡act may be established by circumstances. An express contract exists whenever there is a mutual meeting of the minds upon any contractual proposition.” (p. 671.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wert v. Phillips““The probate court is the proper forum for establishing a claim against a decedent's estate for services rendered by the claimant to the decedent in his lifetime, unless the claim shows on its face that equitable considerations enter into its allowance or the title to real estate is involved.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dent v. Morton
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.