Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Evans v. State (1985)
2 district · 29 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 Furman v. Georgia · Norton v. Shelby County · 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson · Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · Parham v. Cortese
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The history of the removal provision, therefore, shows a shifting concern between having a broad right of removal and having a very limited right because of the abuse associated with requests for removal. The present constitutional language resulted from a desire to narrow the right because of the abuses shown. No other intent is revealed by the historical material.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Article IV, § 8, of the Maryland Constitution gives a criminal defendant an absolute right of removal to another court if he is charged with an offense which is or may be "punishable by death." He need do no more than file in writing, under oath, a suggestion that he "cannot have a fair and impartial trial in the court" in which the case is pending. In criminal cases not punishable by death, the constitutional provision requires the defendant to go further and "make it satisfactorily appear to the Court that such suggestion is true, or that there is reasonable ground for the same."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Redman v. State“Art. IV, § 8, merely provides that a criminal defendant has an absolute right of removal if charged with an offense "punishable by death." As a result of the decisions in Furman and Bartholomey, rape and assault with intent to rape are simply not offenses "punishable by death" under existing law. The defendant is asking us to view the phrase "punishable by death" as if it were worded "formerly punishable by death" or "punishable by life imprisonment." We have no such authority to re-write a constitutional provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Redman 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.