Johnson v. . Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Finlay v. Finlay (1925), Krause v. Krause (1940)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJohnson v. Johnson
Relationships
Relies on Galusha v. . Galusha · Erkenbrach v. . Erkenbrach · Higgins v. . Sharp · Hughes v. . Cuming · Ramsden v. . Ramsden
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I am not aware of any influential authority for the proposition that in an ordinary equity suit between wife and husband affecting property rights counsel fees should be allowed to the former during pendency of the action. Certainly no such an one has been cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Low v. Low
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.