Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Orr (2019), Emmett v. State (1943)
31 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 United Press v. . New York Press Co. · People v. . Marendi · People v. . Smith · Futch v. State · Commonwealth v. McDermott
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When under arrest and confronted by another in the presence of an arresting officer, silence by the accused is as consistent with the theory that the accused prefers to exercise his right to await trial by the proper tribunal as it is of the consciousness of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Orr“under such circumstances an implication that silence on the part of the accused amounts to positive evidence of guilt is unwarranted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emmett v. State“Acquiescence or silence, when the circumstances require an answer or denial or other conduct, may amount to an admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emmett 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.