State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably State v. Smith (1980), State v. Jackson (1983)
40 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 Spinelli v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · State v. Vestal · State v. Stephens · State v. Barefoot
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admissibility of the photographs for the limited purpose did not depend on the degree or the source of the illumination at the time they were made. The photographs were admissible for the purpose of illustrating the testimony to the end that the court and jury might better evaluate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lester“The ruling in respect of the impartiality of [a juror] presents no reviewable question of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Noell“[T]he presiding judge shall decide all questions as to the competency of jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Noell
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.