Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1971
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 Ingle v. Commonwealth · Wright v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Green · Tipton v. Commonwealth · Wells 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.
““Persons about to be arrested are entitled to know the offense charged. Where the person attempting to make the arrest has not informed the person that he is about to be arrested and of the nature of the offense, as required by the above section of the Code, the person about to be arrested may resist with impunity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * The only exception to the above rule is to be found in that class of cases where the accused knew the officer had a warrant for his arrest or in those cases where, under the emergency of the circumstances, the officer has no chance or opportunity to inform the accused.””
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.