Johnson v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2012
5 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 Metropolitan Gas Repair Service, Inc. v. Kulik · Frick v. Abell · Duncan v. Schuster-Graham Homes, Inc. · McGlasson v. Barger · Cosmopolitan Homes, Inc. v. Weller
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a common law duty to exercise reasonable care and skill in the construction of a building ... [and a] subsequent homeowner can "maintain an action against a builder for negligence resulting in latent defects which the subsequent purchaser was unable to discover prior to purchase.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[al building contractor is under a common law duty to exercise reasonable care and skill in the construction of the building,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The requirements for the award of exemplary damages are met if the defendant, while conscious of his conduct and cognizant of existing conditions, knew, or should have known, that the injury would probably result from his acts.”
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.