Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Davis v. State (1976), Government of Virgin Islands v. Berry (1979)
6 federal appellate · 27 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Giles v. State of Maryland · Cook 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of competence to stand trial is whether defendant has ‘sufficient present ability to consult [with] his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding — and whether he has a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings against him.’ ” Johnson v. State, (1974) 262 Ind. 516, 520 , 319 N.E.2d 126, 128 ; Dusky v. U. S., (1960) 362 U.S. 402, 402 , 80 S.Ct. 788, 789 , 4 L.Ed.2d 824, 825 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McKrill v. State · Blake v. State“"Although appellant behaved rationally at trial, a history of serious mental disorders, commitment to mental hospitals, or a prior court order of incompetency would put his competency into question."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill 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.