14 N.C. App. 378 - Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2002
17 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 In Re the Custody of Sauls · Weddington v. Weddington · Blankenship v. Blankenship · 1 N.C. App. 108 - In Re Holt · Cushing v. Cushing
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eliminate the conflicting and inconsistent statutes, which have caused pitfalls for litigants, and to bring all of the statutes relating to child custody and support together into one act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exclusive jurisdiction of custody and support of children... where no custody or support questions [were] raised prior to, or determined in, the final judgment in the divorce action.”
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.