Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979), Frye v. Commonwealth (1986)
9 federal appellate · 43 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brewer v. Williams · Michigan v. Mosley · Smith v. Commonwealth · Von Byrd v. Texas
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the case of every felony, every principal in the second degree and every accessory before the fact may be indicted, tried, convicted and punished in all respects as if a principal in the first degree; ... except in the case of a killing for hire....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essential in a prosecution for capital murder, except in the case of murder for hire, that the heretofore unnecessary distinction be drawn between principals in the first and second degree, assuring that only the person who is the immediate perpetrator may be a principal in the first degree and thus liable to conviction for capital murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) The willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of any person in the commission of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon; (e) The willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of a person during the commission of, or subsequent to, rape.. . .”
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.