Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2014
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Baskerville v. Baskerville · Bell v. Bell · Rhein v. Rhein · Mankato Mills Co. v. Willard · Wagner v. Wagner
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Furthermore, the jury acted in an advisory capacity only, and the court was free to accept or reject the verdict as it saw fit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a divorce case ... survives a voluntary dismissal or abandonment thereof for the purpose of permitting the [district] court to fix and allow attorneys’ fees for services rendered up to the time of the dismissal. Such fees must be limited to compensation for services rendered up to the time of the dismissal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.