State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Chapman v. State (1968), State v. Wolske (1968)
56 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.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he ultimate judicial responsibility ... to make reasonably certain that a person innocent of any crime has not been improperly induced to plead guilty.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. State · Miles v. State“"Inevitably the judge plays a part in the negotiated guilty plea. His role is a delicate one, for it is important that he carefully examine the agreed disposition, and it is equally important that he not undermine his judicial role by becoming excessively involved in the negotiations themselves."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. State · Miles v. State“The trial court should not accept a defendant’s plea of guilty without first ascertaining on the record, that he understands the nature and the elements of the crime to which he pleads guilty and that he is informed of the fundamental rights of a defendant who elects to plead not guilty and stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vieburg
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.