Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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

1. “If the police action could have been taken against an individual even absent the underlying intent or motivation, there is no conduct which ought to have been deterred and thus no reason to bring the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule into play for purposes of deterrence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. STATE v. COUSAN · STATE v. COUSAN

2. “[d]ue process of law requires that a prospective juror be willing to consider all the penalties provided by law and not be irrevocably committed to a particular punishment before the trial begins.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. NOLEN v. STATE · POSEY v. STATE

3. “Under Jackson-Denno , the district court must decide: 1) whether relinquishment of Fifth Amendment rights was voluntary in the sense that it was the product of a free and deliberate choice rather than intimidation, coercion, or deception; and 2) whether the waiver was made with a full awareness of both the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2024 OK CR 12 - SWAGER v. STATE