Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), Felker v. State (1984)
2 federal appellate · 98 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Hicks v. State · Bacon v. State
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The murder in this case was conducted in a methodical, execution-style fashion. The victim was disrobed at the time of the murder, and she had her hands tied behind her back. The murder itself was preceded by the rape of the victim. This clearly evinced a depravity of mind on the part of the defendant and involved torture to the victim. In both respects, it was outrageously and wantonly vile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Kemp“the offense or murder ... was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. State“The exception to the general rule that evidence of independent crimes is inadmissible has been most liberally extended in the area of sexual offenses.”
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.