State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Williams v. State (1983), Stephens v. State (1991)
164 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 Bacon v. State · Hamilton v. State · French v. State · 8 Ga. App. 413 - Lee v. State · 153 Ga. App. 166 - Laws 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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"First, there must be evidence that the defendant was in fact the perpetrator of the independent crime. Second, there must be sufficient similarity or connection between the independent crime and the offense charged, that proof of the former tends to prove the latter. [Cit.]"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Proof of crimes which are similar or are closely connected to the crime charged does tend to establish the crime charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`are sufficiently similar or connected to the facts of the crime charged,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.