Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Gray v. Commonwealth (1987), Watkins v. Commonwealth (1985)
29 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 Coppola v. Commonwealth · Stanley v. Zant · Harmon v. Commonwealth · Dillard v. Commonwealth · Hummel 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant’s] prior convictions involved grand larceny, statutory burglary, distribution of drugs, and possession of drugs with intent to distribute. Not only were they crimes of moral turpitude, but their nature was so similar to the crime about which he testified that the jury might have concluded, if the offenses had been named, that he was especially susceptible to the hope of favor if he cooperated or to the fear of severe punishment as an habitual criminal if he did not.”
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.