Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... Unless we can consider an uninitiated interlineation in the statement of facts, proof of venue must rest on judicial notice that the trial was held at Wheeler (the County Seat of Wheeler County), and that a point from one to four miles from Wheeler, on the highway leading toward Pampa, was in Wheeler County. The courts should not be called upon to rely upon such evidence when the proof is available to establish that the place where the offense was committed was in Wheeler County.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Emerson v. State

2. ““The fact that a defendant has been previously convicted of the misdemean- or offense of driving a motor vehicle on a public highway while intoxicated is an essential part of the felony offense which must be alleged and proved, and without such proof the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction. A necessary part of this proof is the identification of the defendant as the person previously convicted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McGrew v. State