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← 2008 MT 227 - State v. Johnson

State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Ferguson · State v. Sattler · State v. Carey · City of Billings v. Peterson · State v. Weinberger

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Relevant evidence-the only type of evidence admissible at trial-is evidence which has a tendency to make the existence of any fact of consequence to the determination of the action more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
    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.