State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Lewis v. Jeffers (1990)
8 federal appellate · 49 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 Dusky v. United States · Estelle v. Williams · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Tison v. Arizona · State v. Gretzler
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acted in such a fashion that his acts set him apart from the 'norm' of first degree murderers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because most first degree murders are cruel, heinous and depraved the statutorily required inquiry with respect to imposition of the death penalty is whether the conduct was especially cruel, heinous or depraved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jeffers v. Ricketts“especially heinous ... or depraved manner,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jeffers v. Ricketts
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.