Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1991
14 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged, and certify that we are unable to agree upon the punishment, and in which event the accused will be sentenced to the penitentiary for the remainder of her natural life. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. State
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.