Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 77 Ill. 2d 49 - Hewitt v. Hewitt (1979), 14 Ill. 2d 178 - Collins v. Collins (1958)
28 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 Smith v. Smith · Leland v. Leland · Fewkes v. Borah · Winning v. Winning
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . under the discretionary power existing in the court, acting in a divorce proceeding and as a' representative of the State, the court should have allowed defendant to withdraw her oral motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint and should have permitted her to introduce such evidence as was pertinent to the issues formed by the pleadings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steffens v. Steffens
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.