Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Brown v. Brown (1964), 835 So. 2d 192 - Gray v. Bush (2001)
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.
Most-quoted passages
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“"Both parties testified orally before the trial court. There was also documentary evidence bearing on the question whether there was a common-law marriage. Although [the alleged husband] testified to the effect that there had never been any agreement between him and [the alleged wife] to enter into the relationship of man and wife, there is ample evidence supportive of the trial court's finding to the contrary. As we see it, the conflicting evidence, and the conflicting tendencies to be drawn therefrom, presented a typical issue of fact to be resolved by the trial court as to whether the essential elements of a common-law marriage were established. On the record before us, considered in the light of the well-recognized presumption in favor of the trial court's finding from evidence [presented] ore tenus, we are not able to say that the court erred in its holding."”
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.