Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 688 So. 2d 895 - Kilgore v. State · Rimmer v. State · 143 So. 2d 484 - Williams v. State · 439 So. 2d 1372 - Herzog v. State · 109 So. 2d 422 - Hamilton 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a judge may take the initiative to clear up uncertainties in the issues of a case, the law is clear, especially in a criminal prosecution, that the trial court should take great care not to intimate to the jury the court's opinion as to the weight, character, or credibility of any evidence adduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. State“may ask questions to clarify the issues but he should not lean to the prosection [sic] or defense lest it appear that his neutrality is departing from center.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. State“A judge may not sum up the evidence or comment to the jury upon the weight of evidence [or] the credibility of witnesses ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee 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.