State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Delisle (1994), State v. Yoh (2006)
44 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1111
Relies on United States v. Young · Morrison v. Olson · Mabry v. Johnson · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · 29 Cal. 3d 733 - People v. Murtishaw
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we have spoken previously of diminished capacity as “negating” malice, the correct way of explaining its effect is as a defense mitigating the degree of homicide from murder to voluntary manslaughter. Like second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter is an intentional killing, but, unlike second degree murder, it is committed under extenuating circumstances that would mitigate, but not justify, the killing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Congress“we must examine the record in each case, and determine whether the error is so prejudicial that 'it undermines confidence in the outcome of the trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Decoteau
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.