Fischer v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2020
24 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 Kinberger v. Drouet · Maughlin v. Perry · 24 Utah 2d 39 - Coombs v. Ouzounian · Wimer v. Wagner · Cummings v. Nielson
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.
“But it is also true that specific performance is a remedy of equity; and one who involves it must have clean hands in having done equity himself. That is, he must take care to discharge his own duties under the contract .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is undoubtedly a basis in the evidence to justify a conclusion that the actions of the defendants created some degree of difficulty or inconvenience for the plaintiffs. Nevertheless, we cannot see therein any basis upon which it could reasonably be concluded that the plaintiffs discharged the duty which the law imposes upon them of attempting with reasonable diligence and good faith to do what the agreement required of them. They did not fulfill that obligation by simply serving the notice of willingness to go forward, and yet failing to tender the required $3,000 payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.