Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2001
5 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 Knowlton v. Knowlton · Hayes v. Hayes · Koebel v. Doyle · Albee v. Albee · Elzas v. Elzas
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe fact that be has a bank account in Annapolis, Maryland, none in Rockford, Illinois, has no charge account in any Rockford store, has never asked appellant to live with him in Illinois and never voted in Illinois since bis marriage, are not sufficient to overcome or discredit bis positive testimony that Rockford has always been bis legal residence and that be has always claimed it as such.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spires v. Spires
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.