104 Cal. App. 283 - Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1974 · most notably 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough (1945), Puckett v. Puckett (1943)
42 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 4 Cal. App. 97 - Soule v. Soule · 89 Cal. App. 177 - Smith v. Superior Court · 55 Cal. App. 458 - Parker v. Parker · 54 Cal. App. 407 - Gates v. Gates
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the court awards alimony to an innocent wife it is not bound by the terms of a contract between the parties either as to its amount or its duration. The power to make the award is drawn from the terms of the statute and not from the agreement of the husband and wife. It follows that the power to modify the award of alimony either as to amount, duration, or time and manner of payment is inherent in the court unhampered by the terms of any contract which the parties might have entered into providing for the payment of any such alimony when it is given in the order or decree as maintenance only. (Smith v. Superior Court, 89 Cal. App. 177 [ 264 Pac. 573 ] ; Soule v. Soule, 4 Cal. App. 97 [ 87 Pac. 205 ] ; Gates v. Gates, 54 Cal. App. 407 [ 202 Pac. 151 ]; notes, 58 A. L. R. 639.) ” The case of Smith v. Superior Court, supra, is direct authority for the foregoing rule announced in the Johnson case, where it may be dicta.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Innes v. McColgan
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.