Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The law does not permit courts to sever marriage bonds and to break up households merely because husband and wife, through unruly tempers, lack of patience, and uncongenial natures, live unhappily together. It requires them to submit to the ordinary consequences of human infirmities and unwise selections, and the misconduct which will form a good ground for legal separation must be very serious, and such as amounts to extreme cruelty, entirely subversive of the family relations, rendering the association intolerable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harmon v. Harmon