State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2005 · most notably Yates v. Evatt (1991), State v. Kelsey (1998)
9 federal appellate · 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 Hall v. Cole · State v. Crowe · State v. Fuller · State v. Harvey · State v. Green
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where two persons combine to commit an unlawful act, and in execution of the criminal act, a homicide is committed by one of the actors as a probable or natural consequence of those acts [sic], all present participating in the unlawful act are as guilty as the one who committed the fatal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yates v. Evatt“wrongful intent to injure another and indicates a wicked or depraved spirit intent on doing wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Moore“the unlawful killing of another with malice aforethought, either express or implied,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smart v. Leeke
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.