Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Southern Constructors, Inc. v. Loudon County Board of Education (2001), Planters Gin Co. v. Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. (2002)
74 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408 · 38 U.S.C. § 5305
Relies on McCarty v. McCarty · Mansell v. Mansell · Guiliano v. Cleo, Inc. · Farmers-Peoples Bank v. Clemmer · Cohen v. Cohen
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]uch an act constitutes an impermissible modification of a division of marital property and a violation of the court decree incorporating the MDA.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are [amounts] deducted from the retired pay of such member ... as a result of a waiver of retired pay required by law in order to receive compensation under title 5 or title 38 [of the United States Code].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all amounts to which the retiree would ordinarily be entitled as a result of retirement from the military,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.