Johnson v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2019
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Douglas v. Alabama · Patterson v. Gaines · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Britton · Bell v. Tug Shrike
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish a common-law marriage in the District of Columbia there must be an express mutual present intent to be husband and wife, followed by good faith cohabitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While the presumption is not conclusive, it is one of the strongest in the law, and it is settled that the party attacking the second marriage has the burden of rebutting the presumption by strong, distinct, satisfactory, and conclusive evidence.”); Mayo v. Ford, 184 A.2d 38, 41 (D.C.1962) (presumption is grounded, in part,”
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.