Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 2012
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Commonwealth v. Copertino
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]herefore, no probable cause was shown to support a warrant commanding the search of the entire building, and the warrant which commanded that search was invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . under the control of Johnnie Carter, a/k/a John Johnson”
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.