Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

48 state decisions

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The jury had the right to accept any one of the statements of the psychiatrists or any part of them, or to reject them all, where there was contradictory evidence, and to weigh all the facts in the case on the issue of sanity. We recognize that once the issue is raised, the burden of proving sanity is on the State. ... As long as there is evidence to support the issue of sanity, the jury has a right to reach its own conclusion on that issue.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Twomey v. State

2. “take into consideration other facts which the psychiatrists did not consider”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lori Barcroft v. State of Indiana