Johnson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably Bourgeois v. Franklin (1980), Auto-Lec Stores v. Ouachita v. Lley Camp No. 10, W.O.W. (1936)
26 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 City of New Orleans, by Public Belt Railroad Commission, v. New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Co. · Coffee v. Smith · Knights of Pythias v. Fishel
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But that rule finds no -application in a case like the one here presented. The rule which controls this case is that an agreement to lease designated property for a specified term and a stipulated monthly rental, all understood and agreed to by the parties, creates the relation of landlord and tenant between the parties when followed by use, and occupation of the premises as contemplated. “Johnson and Williams reached a complete agreement concerning a lease on certain property for a specified term at an agreed rental. * * * ” [ 178 La. 891 , 152 So. 558 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * By taking possession of and using the property as they did, defendants waived their right to have the lease contract reduced to writing. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““While this [is] a suit to enforce an [oral] agreement to lease and not one on a lease contract, the opinion clearly enunciates the rule that where parties enter into an agreement to lease, and act upon the agreement, neither party is at liberty to withdraw on the pretext that a contract of lease was never reduced to writing, although such was contemplated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Widmeyer v. Olds
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.