Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he majority of [s]tates honor a competent defendant's choice to forgo a defense strategy that asserts, in any way, that he or she was not guilty of the crime charged by reason of insanity-even over defense counsel's objections”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Breton v. Commissioner of Correction

2. “the record reflects that [the defendant] asserted his right to self-representation mainly because of the 'conflict of interests' arising out of his differences with his counsel over the insanity defense”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Breton v. Commissioner of Correction