Johnson v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1980
6 federal appellate · 13 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the contract between the broker and his principal specifies the terms upon which the land is to be sold, the broker has performed his duty and is entitled to his commissions when he produces a purchaser ready and willing and able to buy upon the terms specified; but where the terms are not specified, and the actual sale is to be made by the .principal, ... his duty is hot performed until he produces a purchaser to whom the principal sells.””
1 later decision 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.