Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2011
9 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 People v. Lucas · 18 Ill. 2d 272 - The People v. Ashley · State v. McLawhorn · State v. Green · Fogg 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the jury that the evidence introduced by the defendant that he was not at the scene of the alleged crime need not be such as to establish this as a fact in order to entitle him to an acquittal; but if it is such as to create and leave in the mind of the jury a reasonable doubt of his presence there, then you shall find the defendant not guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence offered in support of the defendant's claim of alibi is so lacking in the required proof of his absence from the scene at the time of the commission of the crime that the trial court properly refused to grant the requested instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Com.“evidence that the accused was elsewhere than at the scene of the crime at the exact time or for the entire period during which it was or could have been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Com.
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.