Johns v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably Coleman v. Woodland Hills Company (1943), 85 Ga. App. 799 - Womack v. Central Georgia Gas Co. (1952)
25 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 Banks v. Howard · Shropshire v. Rainey · Hardeman v. Ellis · Shingler v. Shingler · Hagan v. Asa G. Candler Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specific performance is not a remedy which either party can demand as a matter of absolute right, and will not in any given case be granted unless strictly equitable and just. Mere inadequacy of price may justify a court in refusing to decree a specific performance of a contract of bargain and sale; so also may any other fact showing the contract to be unfair, or unjust, or against good conscience. And in order to authorize specific performance of a contract, its terms must be clear, distinct, and definite.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthews v. Blanos
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.