Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
45
cited by 45 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
10 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Atkins v. Virginia · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc. · Lilly v. Virginia · Simmons v. South Carolina · Holm v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significantly subaverage intellectual functioning as demonstrated by performance on a standardized measure of intellectual functioning administered in conformity with accepted professional practice, that is at least two standard deviations below the mean.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Johnson · Prieto v. Zook
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.