Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Donahue v. Donahue (1989), Allen v. Allen (2001)
156 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 Lide v. Lide · Atkinson v. Atkinson · Simon v. Flowers · Hussey v. Hussey · Turbeville v. Morris
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may include placing the property in joint names, transferring the property to the other spouse as a gift, * using the property exclusively for marital purposes, commingling the property with marital property, using marital funds to build equity in the property, or exchanging the property for marital property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Odom · Smith v. Smith“The ultimate goal of [equitable] apportionment is to divide the marital estate, as a whole, in a manner that fairly reflects each spouse's contribution to the economic partnership and also the effect on each of the parties of ending that partnership.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bojilov v. Bojilov · Smith v. Smith“The mere use of separate property to support the marriage, without some additional evidence of intent to treat it as property of the marriage, is not sufficient to establish transmutation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Odom · Smith v. Smith
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.