Johnson v. Wortzel’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2018
7 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 482 So. 2d 346 - Wade v. State · Hutchison v. Tompkins · 49 So. 2d 81 - Beatty v. Flannery · 82 So. 2d 504 - Goldfarb v. Robertson · 112 So. 2d 280 - O'NEILL v. Broadview, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) an intimation of fraud on the seller’s part; (2) misfortune beyond his control accounting for the buyer’s failure to fulfill the contract; (3) a mutual rescission of the contract; or (4) a benefit to the seller “the retention of which [when compared to the total contract price would be] shocking to the conscience of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.