Johnson v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2018
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Lambert v. Home Federal Savings and Loan Assoc. · 9 Smith & H. 540 - Ashley and Gibbs v. Preston · Yates v. Skaggs · 40 Tenn. App. 1 - Moore v. Berry · 5 Smith & H. 109 - Green v. Crye
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.
“[n]o action shall be brought ... [u]pon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or the making of any lease thereof for a longer term than one (1) year ... unless the promise or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person lawfully authorized by such party.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Bland · Cunningham v. Lester“'must contain the essential terms of the contract expressed with such certainty that they may be understood from the memorandum itself or some other writing to which it refers or with which it is connected, without resorting to parol evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“protect owners of land from hasty or inconsiderate agreements concerning a valuable species of property, and to guard against misunderstanding as to the nature and extent of such agreements.”
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.