State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2005
24 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 State v. Boyd · State v. Gregory · State v. Ritson · State v. Pyle · State v. Doyle
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well established rule that circumstantial evidence can be used to prove any element of a crime (State v. Rhoten, 174 Kan. 394 , 257 P.2d 141 ; State v. Dill, 182 Kan. 174 , 319 P.2d 172 ; State v. Crosby, 182 Kan. 677 , 324 P.2d 197 ), and can sustain a conviction of even the gravest offense. (State v. Morton, 217 Kan. 642 , 538 P.2d 675 ; State v. Ritson, 215 Kan. 742 , 529 P.2d 90 ; State v. Hale, 207 Kan. 446 , 485 P.2d 1338 .)” State v. Johnson, 220 Kan. 720, 722 , 556 P.2d 168 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the circumstances are as consistent with the absence as well as the presence of crime, the corpus delicti has not been proved since the evidence is susceptible to a construction which will prove innocence as well as guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morton
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.