State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
2 district · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · In re Matney · State v. Griffin · State v. Webb · State v. Heide
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(4) Before imposing sentence the court shall . . . (c) address the defendant personally and ask the defendant if the defendant wishes to make a statement on the defendant’s own behalf and to present any evidence in mitigation of punishment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore · State v. Bowen
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.