Johnson's Case’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1989
1 district · 5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““an appeal was granted, in all criminal cases, from the sentence of a Justice of the peace””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sklar
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.