Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Terca v. Terca (2008), Miller v. Jacobsen (2006)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Rousseau v. Gesinger · Bailey v. Bailey · Bruning v. Jeffries · Donohue v. Getman · Thomerson v. Thomerson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny deviation [from the child support guidelines] must be based on the factors listed in SDCL 25-7-6.10.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Findings of fact will not be disturbed on appeal unless they are clearly erroneous. SDCL 15-6-52(a). In applying the clearly erroneous standard, this court will overturn the findings only when, after a review of all the evidence, the court is left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson
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.