State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Fuerschbach v. Southwest Airlines Co. (2006), State v. Johnson (1997)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Carroll v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Pierson v. Ray · Thomas v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant must produce evidence showing facts and circumstances within the defendant’s personal knowledge (1) that would induce an objectively-reasonable person to believe (2) that a felony had been or was being committed (or a breach of the peace was being committed in his presence); (3) that the defendant acted in good faith based upon that belief and, if raised, (4) that the defendant acted with reasonable force under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peterson“a common-law defense to a civil . . . false imprisonment suit . . . requires . . . that the officer prove that he or she acted in good faith and with probable cause and therefore lawfully under the circumstances”
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.