State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably State v. Boyce (1969), State v. Spaulding (1980)
49 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 State v. Beilke · State v. Jacobson · State v. McLarne · Reynolds v. La Crosse & Minnesota Packet Co. · State v. Cowing
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) absence of aggression or provocation on the part of the slayer; (2) actual and honest belief of the slayer that he was in imminent danger of some felony and that it was necessary to take the action he did; (3) existence of reasonable grounds for such belief; and (4) duty of the slayer to retreat or avoid the danger if reasonably possible.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The earliest case, Gallagher v. State, 3 Minn. 185 at 187 (270 at 273), pointed out that a party attacked may use a sufficient degree of force to prevent an intended blow without retreating but added, ‘He must, however, take care that he use no more violence than may be necessary to prevent the violence of the assailant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Baker
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.