Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2018
3 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court shall have jurisdiction in making such order or decree relative to the minor children of such parties as authorized in this chapter to award custody *** until such child has attained the age of 18 years and may require the husband to pay such allowance as may be deemed proper for the support of each such child until each such child shall have attained that age and may *** in case of exceptional circumstances *** require payment of such allowance for any such child after he attains that age.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“source of property, contribution towards its acquisition, the years of married life, the needs of the parties, their earning ability and also the cause for divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all the equitable factors involved,” including”
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.