Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1954
7 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 Loving v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Chesapeake & Ohio R'y Co. · Couch v. Commonwealth · Garten 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““True, section 596 of the Civil Code authorizes ‘the party producing a witness’ to ‘contradict him by other evidence, and by showing that he has made statements different from his present testimony.’ But this rule has been restricted to cases in which the evidence of the witness is prejudicial to the party producing him and has never been applied to cases in which the witness merely fails to prove what is expected of him and says nothing to prejudice the party’s case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.