Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1993
11 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 In Re Estate of Plumel · In Re the Will of Fowles · Hill v. Davis · 110 Cal. App. 499 - Atkinson v. Atkinson · In Re Stover's Will
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.
““A codicil is an instrument testamentary in character which supplements, adds to or qualifies an existing will and which is made by the testator to alter, enlarge, or restrict the provisions of the will or to explain, republish, or revoke it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'NEAL v. James“as the instrument by which [a man] expresses his intention as to the disposition of his property at his death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.