State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Williams (1983), State v. Hankerson (1975)
66 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 State v. Carter · State v. Frizzelle · State v. Francis
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the State introduces in evidence exculpatory statements of the defendant which are not contradicted or shown to be false by any other facts or circumstances in evidence, the State is bound by these statements.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the State's evidence and that of the defendant are to the same effect and tend only to exculpate the defendant, motion for nonsuit should be allowed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had the right to stand her ground, protect her person, [and] prevent the invasion of her home,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.