State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Johnson v. Louisiana (1972), 418 So. 2d 515 - State v. Smith (1982)
31 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed an offense although not in the presence of the officer.”
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.