Johnston v. Whittemore’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1939
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ What might have been the effect of such a provision in-case the contract had been declared void we need not decide,, though it is clear such a provision is not one which the law would enforce, as for stipulated damages, as it is not based upon any idea of just and adequate compensation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thirlby v. Rainbow
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.