Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2007
24 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 Kaehler v. Kaehler · Farnham v. Thompson · Malchow v. Malchow · Kleidon v. Glascock · Larson v. Larson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To deny a child of this age his mother’s love and care may lead to emotional disturbances, permanently inimical to his well-being. Because of this, on many prior occasions we have interfered where the trial court has taken a child of tender years from the mother’s custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * Almost without exception we have held that under the foregoing statute the custody of very young children should be awarded to the mother.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reiland v. Reiland
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.