Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1979
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 Williams v. State · Smith v. State · Pate v. State · King v. State · Fleming v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The indictment charges that ‘the defendant * * * did unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill Josh Grimes by striking him with a pick,’ etc. The defendant demurred to the indictment, because it failed to allege what sort of ‘pick’ was used by the defendant in killing the deceased. Says the defendant’s counsel: ‘There are many kinds of picks, and, as we are aware, quite a large per cent, of picks are not considered weapons, and could not be used to advantage in committing murder.’ There are many kinds of knives, sticks, and stones, some of which Are not considered weapons; but under the laws of this state indictments which charge murder with a. ‘knife,’ ‘stick,’ or ‘stone,’ without further particularizing the instrument, are sufficient. An indictment which properly charges murder by means of a certain instrumentality is sufficient if it specifies the instrumentality by its generally accepted name. King v. State, 137 Ala. 47 , 34 So. 683 ; Smith v. State, 142 Ala. 14 , 39 So. 329 . The indictment was not subject to the defendant’s demurrer.””
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.