53 Cal. App. 2d 430 - Johnson v. Atkins’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Trubowitch v. Riverbank Canning Co. (1947), Loving & Evans v. Blick (1949)
6 federal appellate · 31 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 Hanes v. Coffee · Straus v. Kazemekas · La Cumbre Golf & Country Club v. Santa Barbara Hotel Co. · H. Hackfeld Co., Ltd. v. Castle
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the assumed possibility of a desired object or effect to be attained by either party to a contract forms the basis on which both parties enter into it, and this object or effect is or surely will be frustrated, a promisor who is without fault in causing the frustration, and who is harmed thereby, is discharged from the duty of performing his promise unless a contrary intention appears.”
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.