Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2019
20 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Smith v. State · Harper v. State · Sanders v. State · Moore 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is justified in threatening or using force against another person when, and to the extent that, he/she reasonably believes that such threat or force is necessary to defend himself/herself or a third person against the other's imminent use of unlawful force. A person is justified in using force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm only if that person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself/herself or a third person or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“explosive rage and fear which led to his unprovoked killing of an unarmed man”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Virger v. State“'unable to take any action to improve or alter [their] situation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Virger 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.