Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably Smith v. Smith (1956), 403 So. 2d 56 - Curtis v. Curtis (1981)
4 federal appellate · 48 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 Houghton v. Hall · Rouyer v. Carroll · Bachino v. Coste · Succession of James · Morgan & Lindsey v. Ellis Variety Stores
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the jurisprudence of this state, defendant [against whom a prospective vendor brought a suit for specific performance] was justified in refusing to accept title to this property by act of sale signed by Mrs. Johnson without being joined by her husband”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinler v. Griffen
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.