Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Panama Processes, S.A. v. Cities Service Co. (1990), Bane v. Anderson, Bryant & Co. (1989)
67 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 Hamid v. Sew Original · Wells v. Shriver · Schock v. Fish · Peters v. Golden Oil Co. · Grand River Dam Authority v. State
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action for divorce, alimony and division of property is one of equitable cognizance, and the trial court's judgment will be left undisturbed unless found to be clearly against the weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a jurisdictional prerequisite to appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Obligations created by interlocutory orders pendente lite do not survive, but merge in, the final judgment. Unlike accrued unpaid installments under a decree or some final order, an arrearage due under the terms of an interlocutory order may be modified or extinguished retroactively. ... In short, the divorce decree operate[s] effectively to extinguish all preexisting rights of the parties arising out of their former marital status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray
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.