State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably LaJoie v. Thompson (2000), 205 W. Va. 326 - State v. Guthrie (1999)
40 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 Davis v. Alaska · 155 Wis. 2d 633 - State v. Pulizzano · 99 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Hudlow · Demers v. State · State Ex Rel. Pope v. Superior Court
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]vidence of the victim’s past sexual conduct, opinion evidence of the victim’s past sexual conduct or of reputation for past sexual conduct, shall not be admitted unless, and only to the extent that the court finds that, the evidence is material to the case and that its inflammatory or prejudicial nature does not outweigh its probative value.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether there is a clear showing that complainant committed the prior acts; (2) whether the circumstances of the prior acts closely resemble those of the present case; (3) whether the prior acts are clearly relevant to a material issue, such as identity, intent, or bias; (4) whether the evidence is necessary to the defendant's case; [and] (5) whether the probative value of the evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]fter assessing the legitimate probative value of the evidence, the [trial] court should consider the effect of excluding such evidence on [the] defendant's right to a fair trial and balance that effect against the potential prejudice to the truthfinding process itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.