Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Bollenbach v. Bollenbach (1970), First National Bank v. Bankers Dispatch Corporation (1977)
25 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 Loth v. Loth · Esteban De La Rama v. Agueda Benedicto De La Rama · Warner v. Warner · I. L. Corse & Co. v. Minnesota Grain Co. · Louden v. Louden
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is equally well settled that interest may be charged on an alimony judgment from the date of the original award, for to hold otherwise would permit the judgment debtor to delay an appeal until the prevailing party settled for less than the whole award. The plaintiff has had the use of the money rightfully belonging to defendant since February 21, 1947, [date of original divorce decree] and we see no reason to overturn the trial court's decision allowing interest from that date. To withhold the use of the money for a period of ten years without interest would lessen the amount of the award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * It is not within the province of this court to determine issues of fact, and an award of alimony and support money and an adjudication of property rights will be overturned on appeal only when, in the light of the evidence as a whole, the trial court has abused this discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ehlmann v. Ehlmann
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.