Thomas v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1958 · most notably Murphy v. Myar (1910), 139 W. Va. 130 - First Huntington National Bank v. Gideon-Broh Realty Co. (1954)
26 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 Cheney v. Libby · Quertermous v. Hatfield · Carpenter v. Thornburn · Colonial & United States Mortgage Co. v. Jeter · Blanchard v. Raines'
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The parties to an agreement for the sale of land may also contract with the right, at the election of either party in the future, upon the performance or nonperformance of certain conditions, to treat the transaction either as a purchase and sale contract or a lease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. Burnett
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.