Johnson v. Maki’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2010
10 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 Brown v. Sutton · Mecum v. Metz · 24 Cal. App. 303 - McGinn v. Willey · 52 Tex. Civ. App. 8 - Babcock v. Lewis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession taken pursuant to an oral contract, coupled with payment of the whole or a part of the purchase price, will remove the case from the operation of the statute of frauds and permit the contract, if just and certain, to be specifically performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis“virtually acknowledged plaintiff to be the owner of the property, and his possession as tenant was the possession of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Allen“The possession required is one that is exclusive of and not shared by the vendor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Allen
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.