Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Valdez v. State (2008), Lamb v. State (2011)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Crawford v. Washington · United States v. Young · Ring v. Arizona · Darden v. Wainwright · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider and decide the facts impartially and conscientiously apply the law as charged by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“rests within the sound discretion of the district court, whose decision will be given considerable deference by this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Hardwick“has, in the immediate proceeding, been convicted of more than one offense of murder in the first or second degree,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.