Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Brewer v. State (1981), Bailey v. State (1985)
87 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 Giglio v. United States · Frisbie v. Collins · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Maldonado v. State · Newhall v. Le Breton
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Fundamental error is an exception to the general rule which requires an in-trial objection in order to preserve error for appeal. To fit within the exception, the error complained of must be such, that if not rectified, would deny the defendant 'fundamental due process.! (citations omitted). It is not enough that it relates in some manner to the violation of a constitutional right."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Trice v. State · Williams v. State“"[Hle was provided with court appointed counsel and voluntarily chose to proceed without such assistance. He cannot now be heard to complain that the lack of such assistance worked to his detriment. Smith v. State, (1977) 267 Ind. 167 , 368 N.E.2d 1154 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sidener 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.