Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably In re the Marriage of Stroud (1981), Jones v. Galbasini (1956)
31 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 Vandy's, Inc. v. Nelson · 17 Cal. App. 609 - Peterson v. Freiermuth · State Ex Rel. Meyer v. District Court · King v. Williams
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been held that the character of an instrument, whether a judgment or an order, is to be determined by its contents and substance and not by its title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny action by a trial court which terminates the proceeding is a final judgment.”
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.