State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably State v. Hutchins (1981), State v. Morgan (1986)
24 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. Mercer · State v. Gordon · State v. Reams · State v. Freeman · State v. Perry
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“premeditation means `thought beforehand for some length of time, however short.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Buchanan
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.