State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. McClain (2017), Dilieto v. County Obstetrics & Gynecology Group, P.C. (2010)
90 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Smith v. Phillips · State v. Golding · Arizona v. Youngblood · Estelle v. Williams
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was conflicting testimony at trial about the clothes that the [petitioner] was seen wearing on the night the victim was shot. Toles observed him around 11 p.m. wearing '[a] black T-shirt, some blue jeans, a black leather coat, and black Jordan sneakers.' Ralph Ford's testimony from the [petitioner's] first trial was read into evidence at the second trial, and he testified that, when he saw the [petitioner] running across Huntington Street from the direction of the gunshot, the [petitioner] was wearing blue jeans, a grey hooded sweatshirt with orange stripes on the sleeves, and black boots.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The police, relying on information received and the identifications made by Ralph Ford and L'Kaya Ford, secured a search warrant for the [petitioner's] residence and seized a .45 caliber handgun. Ballistics testing confirmed that the gun seized from the [petitioner's] home was not the gun used to kill the victim. The parties stipulated at trial that there was no record of a permit in the defendant's name to carry a handgun. The police also seized a pair of black, high-top sneakers from the [petitioner's] home but did not find a gray sweatshirt with orange stripes or blue jeans.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Therefore, we begin by noting that it is well established that there are two areas of constitutionally guaranteed access to evidence such that denying or foreclosing the defendant's access to that evidence may constitute a due process violation. The first situation concerns the withholding of exculpatory evidence by the police from the accused.... The second situation ... concerns the failure of the police to preserve evidence that might be useful to the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.