Johnston v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2012
5 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 Powers v. CALVERT FIRE INS. CO. · Whisenant v. James Island Corporation · Champion v. Whaley · Mylin v. Allen-White Pontiac, Inc. · Norton v. Ewaskio
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The undisputed testimony of Johnston and Brown shows they had an express agreement regarding Johnston’s compensation from August 1980 to August 1982. Johnston rendered the services agreed to and Brown paid him the agreed compensation for those services. In other words, both parties performed the contract. In these circumstances, it was error for the trial judge to deny Brown’s motion for a directed verdict on the quantum meruit claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. Brown
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.