12 N.C. App. 505 - Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 1986
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. Richardson · Rouse v. Rouse
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the order dated 27 March 1964 was.entered on motion of the wife in her action for alimony without divorce, the court not only awarded her alimony pendente lite, but went further and awarded her ‘sole and exclusive possession, for herself and the infant child,’ of the residence of the parties. This had the effect of legalizing the separation of the parties from the date of the order, and such separation having continued for the requisite statutory period thereafter, the husband became entitled to a divorce. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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