State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Dennis (1963), State v. Leggett (1978)
6 federal appellate · 40 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.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“20 So.2d at 744. The court explained its rationale for this conclusion: 7 Usually in a situation of that kind the person so assaulted attempts to escape, to wrest the gun from the assailant, or to deliver to him some death dealing blow; and, in making any of these attempts, serious injury often results. Moreover, under the circumstances that existed here, as the trial judge correctly points out,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... includes any gas, liquid, or other substance or instrumentality, which, in the manner used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attempt to commit a battery, or the intentional placing of another in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery.”
2 later decisions 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.