Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Zouck v. Zouck (1990), Turrisi v. Sanzaro (1987)
29 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 Estin v. Estin · Esenwein v. Commonwealth ex rel. Esenwein · Geach v. Illinois · Lynn v. Lynn · Emerson v. Emerson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [U]nless an a vinculo decree either awards alimony, or reserves jurisdiction, the Court is powerless, after the decree has become enrolled, to award alimony. Under [Marshall], if the Court awarded alimony of one cent a year, it could at any time, years later perhaps, require the husband if his circumstances warranted it, to pay $10,000.00 a year. Also, by adding four words — ‘The Court retains jurisdiction’ — alimony could be given for the first time 20 years after the decree.””
5 later decisions 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.