Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Phillips v. State (1990), Parks v. State (1979)
72 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 Neil v. Biggers · White v. State · Shipman v. State · Dipert v. State · Lewis 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing such a determination, we recognize that our examination of the transcribed record of the questioning cannot compare with the trial court's personal presence at the hearing as a basis for resolution of the issue. We, therefore, entrust this determination to the discretion of the trial court and will reverse only where we find clear error, where there is no evidence from which the trial court could have found that the child understood the nature and obligation of an oath.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Strong v. State · Fox v. State““BY THE COURT: * * * * * Q [K.], do you know what telling the truth is? A Yeah, yeah. Q Do you know what telling a lie is? A Yeah. Q What is telling a lie or a story? A (No response). Q What happens to you, if you tell a lie? A My Mommy gets mad. Q Does your Mommy ever spank you? A Sometimes. Q Did you say, yes, sometimes? A Yeah. * * * * * Q Did your mother tell you that you’re not to tell any lies? A (No response). Q [K.] did your mother or your grandmother ever tell you that you shouldn’t tell stories, that you should always tell the truth? A Yeah, tell the truth. Q Do you understand that today, what you tell us today, you have to tell the truth about it? A Yeah. Q And you promise that you will do that? A Yeah. Q You won’t make up any stories? A Nope.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindsey v. State““ ‘The qualification of the child as competent does not imply [he] will be a model witness, nor does it imply that [his] testimony will be supported by the other evidence— None of those issues bears on [his] competency as a witness. An adult witness is not rendered incompetent because he makes inconsistent statements or has a suspected faulty memory. The statutory presumption of incompetence is overcome when the child demonstrates an understanding of “the nature and obligation of an oath” and there is no further test.' ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dean 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.