State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2003
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 Wong Sun v. United States · Costello v. United States · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Jaben v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While such statements, inadvertently or carelessly made, are unfortunate and have no place in a lawsuit, courts are reluctant to reverse a conviction or grant a new trial solely on the basis that prejudicial error has been committed by such statement or statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunkel“The admission of motion pictures or evidence of experiments performed outside the jury’s view rests in the sound discretion of the trial court. * * * To overturn a trial court’s ruling, a clear abuse of discretion must be both alleged and proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Engen
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.