Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 419 So. 2d 1324 - Pate v. State (1982)
65 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.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the duty of counsel to make more than an assertion; they should state reasons for their propositions, and cite authorities in their support.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State · Britt v. State“not manifest or self-evident, and yet not a single authority is cited in appellant's brief, nor is there any definite statement of any particular principle of law which appellant would have us apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.