Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982 · most notably Wade v. Mayo (1948), Bridges v. Speer (1955)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Watson v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no duty resting upon the trial court to appoint counsel to represent the accused as he was not charged with a capital offense. See Sec. 157, Criminal Procedure, Acts 1939, c. 19554 [F.S.A. § 909.21]; Watson et al. v. State, 142 Fla. 218 , 194 So. 640 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayo v. Wade“cannot escape the responsibility by averring that he fell asleep and did not realize that he had hit and killed an unfortunate human being who was entirely without fault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bridges v. Speer“endangered the lives of all people traveling on such highway”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bridges v. Speer
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.