Johnson v. Browder’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2000
16 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 7 Smith & H. 329 - New York Casualty Co. v. Lawson · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Parsons Et Ux. v. Hall · Blair v. Snodgrass · Andrews v. Crenshaw
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well to remember that certain fundamental and indispensable conditions must be shown to justify a decree for specific performance. The contract must be clear, definite, complete and free from any suspicion of fraud or unfairness. Parsons v. Hall [ 184 Tenn. 363 ], 199 S. W. 2d 99 ; Gibson’s Suits in Chy., 1937 Ed., 949.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.