Johnson v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Leyendecker & Associates, Inc. v. Wechter (1984), Murray v. O & a Express, Inc. (1982)
25 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 Landers v. East Texas Salt Water Disposal Co. · Woods v. Littleton · Jackson v. Fontaine's Clinics, Inc. · Woo v. Great Southwestern Acceptance Corp. · Scott v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an action brought under Section 17.50 of this subchapter, actual damages only and attorney’s fees reasonable in relation to the amount of work expended and court costs may be awarded where the Defendant: [[Image here]] (2) proves that ... within 30 days after he was given written notice he tendered to the consumer (a) the cash value of the consideration received from the consumer or the cash value of the benefit promised, whichever is greater, and (b) the expenses, including attorney’s fees, if any, reasonably incurred by the consumer in asserting his claim against the defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In an action brought'under Section 17.50 of this subchapter, actual damages only and attorney’s fees reasonable in relation to the amount of work expended and court costs may be awarded where the defendant ... (2) proves that he had no written notice of the consumer’s complaint before suit was filed ...”
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.