Johnson v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that contracts are to be interpreted as written, and the interpretation of the terms of a contract may not result in a modification of the contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Malcolm v. Malcolm
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-04-03· cited 197×
• Alverson v. Northwestern National Casualty Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-02-12· cited 73×
• Ducheneaux v. Miller
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-07-01· cited 73×
• Grode v. Grode
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-02-14· cited 64×
• Matter of Estate of Jetter
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-10-29· cited 48×
• Kier v. Kier
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 46×
• E. E. E., Inc. v. Hanson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1982-04-01· cited 45×
• Hisgen v. Hisgen
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-10-09· cited 43×
• In Re Estate of Klauzer
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-01-12· cited 40×
• Read v. McKennan Hospital
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-05-17· cited 39×
• Steffens v. Peterson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-07-07· cited 37×
• GMS, INC. v. Deadwood Social Club, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-05-04· cited 37×
• Gloe v. Union Insurance Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2005-03-02· cited 36×
• Cuka v. Jamesville Hutterian Mutual Society
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-07-01· cited 36×
• Culhane v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2005-09-07· cited 32×
• Amdahl v. Lowe
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1991-06-05· cited 30×
• Singpiel v. Morris
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1998-08-05· cited 29×
• In Re the Estate of Stevenson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-02-16· cited 29×
• City of Watertown v. Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-07-02· cited 24×
• Rogers v. Rogers
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-07-03· cited 22×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1976-12-31· cited 170×
• Lien v. Lien
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1979-04-19· cited 146×
• Wallahan v. Wallahan
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1979-09-26· cited 95×
• Lytle v. Morgan
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1978-09-21· cited 94×
• Holforty v. Holforty
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1978-12-26· cited 70×
• Employers Liability Assurance Corp. v. Morse
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1961-11-10· cited 64×
• City of Sioux Falls v. Henry Carlson Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1977-10-20· cited 42×
• National Surety Corporation v. Shoemaker
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1972-02-25· cited 39×
• Huffman v. Shevlin
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1955-11-15· cited 39×
• Flowers v. Flowers
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1976-07-09· cited 38×
• Jensen v. Pure Plant Food International, Ltd.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1979-01-05· cited 37×
• Eberle v. McKeown
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1968-06-12· cited 31×
• Jones v. American Oil Company
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1973-07-12· cited 22×
• Piechowski v. Case
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 21×
• Newton v. Erickson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1950-02-27· cited 20×
• Custer Co. Bd. of Ed. v. State Commission on Elementary & Secondary Education
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1972-01-19· cited 16×
• Papaioannou v. Britz
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1955-04-13· cited 16×
• Kansas City Life Ins. Co. v. Wells
  Eighth Circuit· 1943-02-10· cited 15×
• Brewster v. FC Russell Company
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1959-11-04· cited 15×
• Credit Management Service, Inc. v. Wendbourne
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1955-11-14· cited 11×