Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 1977 · most notably Adelaide Harding v. George F Harding, In re Dole (1903)
73 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Coari v. Olsen · Foote v. Foote · Ward v. Ward · Foss v. Foss
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ A wife who is not herself in fault is not bound to live and cohabit with her husband if his conduct is such as to directly endanger her life, person or health, nor where the husband- pursues a persistent, unjustifiable and wrongful course of conduct toward her" which will necessarily and inevitably render her life miserable, and living with him as his wife, unendurable.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Curlett v. Curlett · Ross v. Ross
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.