Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Morrill (1984), 20 Va. App. 133 - Sandoval v. Commonwealth (1995)
96 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 Webb v. Commonwealth · Mason v. Commonwealth · Pierce v. Commonwealth · Merritt v. Commonwealth · Ingram v. Commonwealth
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sensible victim of a holdup 'acts on appearances' and 'is not required to know whether the gun pointed at him is loaded or whether it shoots bullets or blanks.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Intent in fact is the purpose formed in a person's mind and may be, and frequently is, shown by circumstances. It is a state of mind which may be shown by a person's conduct or by his statements.”
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.