State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Felker v. State (1984), Ingram v. State (1984)
85 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Brown v. Illinois · United States v. Dionisio · Davis v. Mississippi · Jarrell 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial court, having decided to rule on the admissibility of evidence prior to the trial, and upon the failure of the state thereafter to lay the foundation for the admissibility of the evidence, did not err in ruling as it did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“implied consent is contingent upon an arrest `for any offense arising out of acts alleged to have been committed while the person was driving ... under the influence of alcohol....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court has an absolute right to refuse to decide the admissibility of evidence, allegedly violative of some ordinary rule of evidence, prior to trial. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.