Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Cobern v. State (1962), Embrey v. State (1968)
82 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 Anderson v. State · Phillips v. State · Mason v. State · Cross v. State · Arant 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is sometimes difficult to draw the line between allowable argument and improper statements in argument. The rule is that an attorney cannot be allowed to state anything as a fact as to which there is no evidence. . . But the solicitor may properly comment upon the evil generally of the crime which the law he is seeking to enforce intends to prevent. . . It is only when the statement is of a substantive, outside fact stated as a fact and which manifestly bears on a material inquiry before the jury, that the court can interfere and arrest discussion." 272 Ala. at 637 , 133 So.2d at 56 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The statement was merely a comment by the solicitor upon the evidence admitted during trial and not an unfavorable allusion to the appellant's silence. It was merely a statement of what the defendant had stated in his confession. The statute is, of course, designed to prevent the creation of any unfavorable inferences from the accused's silence, but it does not abrogate the right of State's counsel to comment on legitimate inferences of the evidence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grady v. State · Taylor v. State“The general rule is that improper argument of counsel is not ground for a new trial or the subject of review on appeal unless there is due objection by counsel or a motion to exclude, a ruling thereon by the court, an exception thereto, or a refusal of the court to make a ruling.”
2 later decisions 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.