Johnson v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
December 1979
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Payne v. People · Crawford v. People · Van Wyk v. People · Jabich v. People · Stewart v. People
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was refused by the trial court and no instruction was given which directed the attention of the jury to any particular theory of defense relied on by defendant. . . . While the instruction tendered on behalf of the defendant did not specifically deal with this theory of defense, it was nevertheless involved in the tendered instruction. It is apparent from the record that defendant relied on the evidence. . . that he abandoned the plot to commit a burglary. . . . It is axiomatic that the accused in a criminal case is entitled to an instruction based on his theory of the case. [ 358 P. 2d at 876 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. State
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.