Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2017
8 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · 161 Ind. App. 388 - Hendrickson v. Binkley · Carr v. Carr · State Ex Rel. Gregory v. SUPERIOR COURT ETC. · 204 N.J. Super. 544 - Fulton v. Fulton
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he property settlement is part and parcel of a final decree of dissolution. Once the marriage is ended by the death of one of the parties before the judgment is rendered, no final decree can be attained. . . . Without a final decree, there can be no property settlement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“acknowledged what it termed three narrow exceptions to the rule: (1) a spouse may seek modification of a property settlement following the entry during the life of the two parties of the decree of dissolution based on the deceased spouse's fraudulent underreporting of his assets to the court, (2) the deceased spouse's attorney may recoup from the surviving spouse fees and expenses incurred in preparing the case (the exact opposite of this case) [ FN ], and (3) the deceased spouse's estate may petition to have child support arrearages reduced to judgment by the dissolution court following the entry of the decree of dissolution. None of those seenarios applies in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““At the conclusion of testimony in the final hearing, the court refused to grant judgment dissolving the marriage, not for lack of proof as to the cause of action but because the court was not satisfied that husband was discharging his obligation to contribute to the support of his children. Thus, the court reserved decision pending receipt of information of an inquiry into the child support matter. Before this matter could be rescheduled for hearing, however, husband died.””
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.