64 Wash. 2d 696 - Johns v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2002
24 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, appellant obtained the original divorce decree ... on the basis of a complaint which did not raise any issue as to the paternity of either child. Furthermore, he presented to the court for signature a decree which stated that these two children were "minor children of the parties hereto" and directed him to pay $80 per month for their support. He thereby represented to the Superior Court . . . that this child was legitimate. As the trial court stated in its oral decision, appellant cannot, on a petition for modification, disregard the original divorce which is res judicata of the paternity issue. . . . He is bound by his own acts in obtaining the original divorce decree.”
1 later decision 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.