Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “self-executing material changes in visitation violate this State's public policy founded on the best interests of a child unless there is evidence before the court that one or both parties have committed to a given course of action that will be implemented at a given time; the court has heard evidence how that course of action will impact upon the best interests of the child or children involved; and the provision is carefully crafted to address the effects on the offspring of that given course of action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 192 - Jones v. Ahmad.

2. “[a] self-executing change of custody/visitation is acceptable as long as it poses no conflict with our law's emphasis on the best interests of the child. However, a self-executing change in custody/visitation that constitutes a material change, i.e., is one that is allowable only upon a determination that it is in the best interests of the child at the time of the change , generally violates Georgia's public policy founded on the best interests of the child.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 192 - Jones v. Ahmad.

3. “at issue is a self-executing change of visitation since it allows for an automatic change in [Grant's] visitation with his child[ren], from supervised to unsupervised [and for increasing lengths of time], based on [certain dates] without any additional judicial scrutiny.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 346 Ga. App. 208 - Weiss v. Grant.