Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1982
16 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 Lane v. McFadyen · Troup v. State · Burch v. State · Cannon v. Michigan Mut. Liability Co. · Oliver 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court will not * * * receive or consider an application for the writ of cei'tiorari * * * for the purpose of reviewing or revising any opinion or decision of the court of appeals, * * *, unless it appears upon the face of the application therefor that application has been made to said court of appeals for a rehearing of the point or decision complained of, and that said application had been decided adversely to the movant, and the application to this court must be filed with the clerk of this court within fifteen days after the action of said court of appeals upon the said application for rehearing. * * * Supreme Court Rule 39, Title 7, Code of Ala.1940, as amended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan 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.