Johnson v. Lennox’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1972
1 district · 6 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 Lyon v. Pollock · Smith v. Allen · Vansant v. Gas-Light Co. · Malone v. McCullough · Smith v. Bateman
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.
““It is the rule of law that the authority of an agent conferring power to execute an executory contract for the sale of real estate must be in writing, and that the agent must be given therein specific authority to do, either the general business of his principal or the particular thing which he assumed to do. Also, that the burden is put on the plaintiff who sues upon a contract thus executed, to show that the person who signed the contract as agent, was authorized not only to negotiate the sale, but also to conclude in writing a binding contract within the terms, conditions and limitations expressed in the contract sued on.””
2 later decisions 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.