Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 1990 · most notably Walker v. State (1956), Payne v. State (1954)
50 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 Edwards v. State · Davis v. State · Ex Parte State · Wesson v. State · Beasley 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the established rule in this state that it is not reversible error either to give or to refuse a charge which fails to hypothesize the jury’s belief (in criminal cases) or reasonable satisfaction (in civil cases) ‘from the evidence.’ ” Locklear v. Nash, 275 Ala. 95 , 152 So.2d 421 ; Johnson v. State, 257 Ala. 644 , 60 So.2d 818 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It has been said that § 389, Tit. 15, Code of 1940, when construed in pari materia with others, makes the right of appeal in criminal cases one of sub; stance, imposing upon the Court a duty to search the record for errors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moody 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.