People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008 · most notably Caldwell v. Mississippi (1985), 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 People v. Sherwood · People v. . Esposito · People v. Santini
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 vice of the statements and questions of the District Attorney lies not primarily in the incorrectness of the statements that an appeal to the Court of Appeals is compulsory but in the suggestion that the jury’s verdict, if against the defendant, cannot be seriously harmful to him because of the opportunities for review. This suggestion is fundamentally unsound and vitiates the trial. No element of our judicial process must be more carefully protected than the function of the jury. The jury has nothing to do with appeals and applications for clemency. They lie in a wholly different field. The jurors have task enough to find the truth and proclaim it by their determination without regard to ultimate consequences. Nothing can be permitted to weaken the jurors’ sense of obligation in the performance of their duties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“doubtful whether the jury could thereafter render a verdict with full appreciation of its responsibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.