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State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

227
cited by 227 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

225 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Davis v. United States · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. · City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons · United States v. Burke

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

  1. “When a party fails to raise and argue an issue in the trial court, it has failed to preserve the issue, and an appellate court will not typically reach that issue absent a valid exception to preservation.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “An issue is preserved for appeal when it has been presented to the district court in such a way that the court has an opportunity to rule on it.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “(i) an error exists; (ii) the error should have been obvious to the trial court; and (iii) ... absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for [Samul].”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.