Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on May v. Anderson · Rapeer v. Colpoys · Harrison v. District of Columbia · United States v. Philippine National Bank · Thomas F. Lundregan v. Mrs. G. Jeannette Lundregan
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * that part of the Juvenile Court Act which established procedures to determine parentage in order to insure support for an unacknowledged illegitimate child, did not pre-empt the jurisdiction of the Domestic Relations Branch over a suit by or on behalf of an acknowledged (though illegitimate) child against his natural father."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Nelson
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.