Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably Kephart v. Kephart (1951), Simpson v. Superior Court (1960)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Keck v. Keck · Adair v. Superior Court · Williams v. Williams
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * It could not, of course, change in any way the amount of alimony that had already accrued, but the fact that the filing of the petition gave it full power over future payments means that its jurisdiction over them was neither lost nor abridged by taking the matter under advisement for the purpose of determining what change, if any, should really be made. The court's power over installments accruing after the filing of the petition was the same following their due date that it was prior thereto, and even if defendant had paid them as they became due, its power to make what in its judgment was a proper order was in no way lessened. Hence, the fact that it did not decide the matter until April 24, 1933, in no sense deprived it of jurisdiction to make an order carrying into effect its conclusion that the facts introduced at the hearing in July, 1932, called for a change in alimony from and after the filing of the petition on June 16, 1932. If the court had felt at the time of the hearing that the filing of the petition did not prevent future installments from vesting, except conditionally, it would undoubtedly have entered a temporary order relieving him from paying them until the matter should be decided, because it is clear that the defendant by filing his petition did all within his power to obtain relief from and after June 16, 1932, and he should not be held responsible for the court's delay in deciding the matter. It was something entirely beyond his control."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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