Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1978
23 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 Sumner v. Sumner · Campbell v. Campbell
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appeared on the trial that the husband had no property, and that he was not equipped to follow any trade or profession. He was, however, a man of apparently robust health, capable of performing manual labor upon a farm, and earning the usual wages for such services. He contends that, being without property, the jury erred in awarding any support for the child. It is certainly a novel proposition that permanent alimony can only be granted out of the estate of the husband, and not out of his wages or his ability to earn. A husband is not excused from the support of his wife and children because he lacks an estate. If he has the capacity to labor, he should labor for their support; and if reluctant, he may be compelled by the court to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamner v. Hamner“§ 2981. Alimony for children on final trial.—If the jury, on the second or final verdict, find in favor of the wife, they shall also, in providing permanent alimony for her, specify what amount the minor children shall be entitled to for their permanent support; and in what manner, how often, to whom, and until when it shall be paid; and this they may also do, if, from any legal cause,' the wife may not be entitled to permanent alimony, and the said children are not in the same category; and when such support shall be thus granted, the husband shall likewise not be liable to third persons for necessaries furnished the children embraced in said verdict who shall be therein specified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.