216 N.J. Super. 588 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably State v. Marshall (1991), State v. Long (1990)
62 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Cronic
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of a witness' sensory or mental defects has unquestionable relevance in attacking a witness' credibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise provided by Rules 405 and 608, for the purpose of impairing or supporting the credibility of a witness, any party including the party calling the witness may examine the witness and introduce extrinsic evidence relevant to the issue of credibility, except that the party calling a witness may not neutralize the witness' testimony by a prior contradictory statement unless the statement is in a form admissible under Rule 803(a)(1) or the judge finds that the party calling the witness was surprised. A prior consistent statement shall not be admitted to support the credibility of a witness except to rebut an express or implied charge against the witness of recent fabrication or of improper influence or motive and except as otherwise provided by the law of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any deficiency of the senses which would lessen the ability to perceive facts testified to by the witness is an attack on the credibility of the witness”
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.