State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Frazier v. State (2008), State v. Kell (2003)
26 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 223 Ga. App. 154 - Spray v. State · 204 Ga. App. 156 - State v. Luster · State v. Military Circle Pet Center No. 94, Inc. · State v. Barber · 225 Ga. App. 809 - Jowers 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(s)tatutes should be read according to the natural and most obvious import of the language, without resorting to subtle and forced constructions, for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation, (cit.), and this principle is particularly compelling when interpreting criminal statutes. (Cit.)” [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Frazier v. State · Glover v. State“venue for the prosecution of OCGA § 16-10-20 for the use of a false document is proper in the county in which the document was submitted for use, even if the person charged with using the false document made the document in another county”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.