Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Wilson v. State (1942), Fuller v. State (1959)
1 federal appellate · 73 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 Cobia v. State · Chapman v. Kimball
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(The commission of the murder by someone having been established), every ground from which a motive could arise may be proved against him (the defendant). . . .. With regard to the grounds from which a motive may be inferred, we may remark that the law has never limited them and never can limit them in number or kind.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law can never limit the number or kind of such indications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.