Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2014
23 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 Maust v. Maust · Longbotham v. Longbotham · Holmes v. Holmes
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although we have approved an award of an undivided interest in the property acquired during coverture, we have done so only in those rare cases where special circumstances not only justified but, in fact, virtually compelled the trial court to make such a division of the property.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Snyder v. Snyder · Bogen v. Bogen“there is nothing in the statutes which authorizes a court to award the children of the marriage any interest whatsoever in the property acquired during cover-ture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luthen v. Luthen
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.