State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably State v. Rodriguez (1980), Novella v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. (1972)
4 district · 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 State v. Hayes · Amato v. Desenti · State v. Murphy · Foote v. Brown · State v. Parker
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fight took place, not in the basement of the house [where the defendant lived], but in the yard, where the deceased had a right to be. The general charge on self defense fully covered this claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw
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.