75 N.C. App. 659 - Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Highway Commission v. Hemphill · 180 N.J. Super. 210 - Amato v. Amato · 40 N.C. App. 120 - Nytco Leasing, Inc. v. Southeastern Motels, Inc. · Graham v. Franco · Marriage of Bugh v. Bugh
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The obvious purpose of the Equitable Distribution Act is to require married persons to share their maritally acquired property with each otherit is not to require either party to contribute his or her bodily health and powers to the assets for distributionand the funds that the appellant [wife] claims to have a right to share in were paid to the appellee [husband] for injuries suffered by his body, which, of course, he had before the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson“established beyond dispute that the personal injury recoveries of all married women in this state are their `sole and separate property'; as, of course, the personal injury recoveries of married men had been since time immemorial.”
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.