Johnson v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Magee v. Young (1946), Rodriguez v. Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co. (1943)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 McAfee v. Travis Gas Corp. · Tanton v. State National Bank · McBride v. Loomis · 22 Tex. Civ. App. 369 - Neyland v. Ward · Tanton v. State Nat. Bank of El Paso
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to those findings Johnson had paid the purchase price and fully performed his obligations under the contract before Wood sought to cancel same. Upon such performance he became vested with an equitable title to the property sufficient to enable him to maintain his action in trespass to try title, as to which action the statute of limitation above referred to governing suits for specific performance is not, applicable. It is not claimed that:.any other limitation statute is applicable. So long as Johnson had not performed his covenants by the payment of the purchase price, he had but an equitable right, but upon his performance that right .ripened into an equitable title superior to that of Wopd. An equitable title, as distinguished from a mere equitable right, will support an action of trespass to try title.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rudman v. Chandler · In Re Gonzalez
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.