Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1986
2 district · 16 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Courts of equity of this state have ample power to grant the relief sought by the plaintiff in this cause. To conclude that because a wife was awarded alimony in another state, the Courts of this state will not aid her in its collection, when if the award had been made regularly in this state they would do so, would have little to commend it. Such a view disregards the whole purpose of awarding alimony or support money to a wife and child. The need is not affected by the place of award. The assertion of the right in a different state cannot change the nature and basis of the obligation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. White““And we conclude that a decree for alimony granted by a foreign Court may be established and enforced by and through the equity Courts of this state, and that our equity Courts may assume jurisdiction thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. White
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.