Johns v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2018
15 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 Toler v. Oakwood Smokeless Coal Corp. · Frady v. Smith · Day v. DAY · Chafee v. City of Aiken · Courie v. Courie
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t the time the parties began residing together ... and throughout their cohabitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough the parties' consent order is not void, the marriage it affirms is .... In balancing the relevant public policies ... the consent order should not be given res judicata effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in which the court found they were married at common law and ordered that they were 'legally separated.'”
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.