Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Ring (2003), United States v. Mitchell (2007)
8 federal appellate · 33 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.
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Matlock · Ring v. Arizona
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Moreover, Nevada statutory law requires two distinct findings to render a defendant death-eligible: `The jury or the panel of judges may impose a sentence of death only if it finds at least one aggravating circumstance and further finds that there are no mitigating circumstances sufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstance or circumstances found.' This second finding regarding mitigating circumstances is necessary to authorize the death penalty in Nevada, and we conclude that it is in part a factual determination, not merely discretionary weighing. So even though Ring expressly abstained from ruling on any `Sixth Amendment claim with respect to mitigating circumstances,' we conclude that Ring requires a jury to make this finding as well: `If a State makes an increase in a defendant's authorized punishment contingent on the finding of a fact, that factno matter how the State labels itmust be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.'" Id. at 460 (second emphasis added) (footnotes omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State · Nunnery v. State“[The] finding regarding mitigating circumstances is necessary to authorize the death penalty in Nevada, and we conclude that it is in part a factual determination, not merely discretionary weighing. So even though Ring expressly abstained from ruling on any “Sixth Amendment claim with respect to mitigating circumstances,” we conclude that Ring requires a jury to make this finding as well: “If a State makes an increase in a defendant’s authorized punishment contingent on the finding of a fact, that fact — no matter how the State labels it — must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Suppression issues present mixed questions of law and fact,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.