State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

68 state decisions

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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We hold the solicitor’s improper reference to appellant’s lack of remorse was error because it was a comment upon his constitutional right to plead not guilty and put the state to its burden of proof. It would be an irreconcilable equivocation for the accused to plead not guilty, present a defense, and simultaneously express remorse for acts he denied committing .... Comments by the prosecution upon an accused’s failure to express remorse invite the jury to draw an adverse inference merely because the defendant did not appear penitent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Artis

2. “evidence of other crimes is admissible to establish a material fact or element of the crime charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. James

3. “died from a gunshot wound to the head and that the body was concealed in the camper”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hawes