Johnston v. Wadsworth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * The relief sought by this suit is not to determine title, but to recover the price stipulated to be paid for the land. The decree is in personam and not in rem , and it would seem, therefore, when the parties are within its jurisdiction, a court of equity may make its decree in personam for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land in another county, notwithstanding section 387.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schleef v. Purdy · Mutzig v. Hope

2. ““* * * While it is said that specific performance is not a matter of absolute right in a party, but of sound discretion in the court, yet the rule has come to be established, if a contract respecting real property is in writing and is certain, fair in all its parts, for an adequate consideration, and capable of being performed, it is as much a matter of course for courts of equity to decree specific performance of it as it is for a court of law to give damages for the breach: 2 Beach, Equity Jurisprudence, § 636; Tiedeman, Equity Jurisprudence, §493.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Public Market Co. v. City of Portland