State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State v. Jones (1997), Walter v. Wilkinson (2000)
47 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 Janson v. Christensen · Mendelsohn v. Superior Court · State v. Reynolds · State v. Pena · State v. Pena
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, we must give it effect without resorting to any rules of statutory construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russell
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.