Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““On the hypothesis put in this instruction, [the decedent] was intervening not as a peacemaker, but for the purpose of disarming a combatant, who was at the time without fault and whose life was being put in immediate peril at the hands of a third party. A person who thus intervenes to disarm a man who is trying to protect himself against an unlawful assault from a third party, which assault puts him in danger of death or great bodily harm, becomes particeps criminis with such third party and may be defended against in the same manner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 94 Md. App. 21 - Corbin v. State

2. “"This is a question of fact, which must be left to the jury in every case. (Citing authorities.) `Overt' simply means `open.' In homicide cases an overt act is an open act, indicating a present purpose to do immediate great bodily harm. What this overt act is can be shown in a given case only by the evidence, and the jury must judge of it in the light of all the evidence. The court cannot properly say to them that this or that act is an overt act."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dupuy v. State