Johnson v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Brenner v. Plitt (1943), Webster v. People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank (1931)
2 district · 44 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 Tyrrell v. Hilton · Hulse v. Mershon · Harris v. Alcock · Edelen v. First National Bank · Kimball v. Harman
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This language, it is held, gives to the court in which the confession is made, the right to determine what is a reasonable fee; it does not leave it to the option or the conscience of the attorney; it contemplates a judicial proceeding by the court for the purpose of ascertaining the amount which may reasonably be charged up. Hence if the attorney himself fixes the sum of his fees, under a power so worded, and confesses judgment for the whole, he acts in excess of his authority, and the judgment so entered, without the intervention of the court, is void.’ ” ( 143 Md. at 27 , 122 A. at 11 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is also said in that section that it is customary to specify in the warrant or note the sum which may be incorporated in the judgment as a fee for the attorney, but that cases have sometimes come before the courts, in which the provision, instead of being explicit, merely designated a ‘reasonable attorney’s fee.’ ” ( 143 Md. at 26, 27 , 122 A. at 11 .)”
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.