State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Humphrey (1992), State v. Walker (1989)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) In any criminal proceeding in which a child less than 13 years of age is alleged to be a victim of the crime, a recording of an oral statement of the child, made before the proceeding began is admissible in evidence if: “(1) The court determines that the time, content and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability; “(2) no attorney for any party is present when the statement is made; "(3) the recording is both visual and aural and is recorded on .film or videotape or by other electronic means; “(7) the person conducting the interview of the child in the recording is present at the proceeding and is available to testify or be cross-examined by any party; [and] "(9) the child is available to testify. “(b) If a recording is admitted in evidence under this section, any party to the proceeding may call the child to testify and be cross-examined, either in the courtroom or as provided by K.S.A. 1985 Supp. 22-3434 and amendments thereto.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Videotape of testimony of child victim admissible in certain cases; limitations; objections, restrictions. (a) On motion of the attorney for any party to a criminal proceeding in which a child less than 13 years of age is alleged to be a victim of the crime, the court may order that the testimony of the child be taken: "(1) In a room other than the courtroom and be televised by closed-circuit equipment in the courtroom to be viewed by the court and the finder of fact in the proceeding; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Chisholm“"(1) Only the attorneys for the defendant, the state and the child, any person whose presence would contribute to the welfare and well being of the child and persons necessary to operate the recording or closed-circuit equipment may be present in the room with the child during the child's testimony;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Chisholm
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.