State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Skjonsby (1982), State v. Scruggs (1988)
35 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 State v. Caron · Gallego v. United States · United States v. Brown · State v. Martin · State v. Sharich
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here can be no rigid formulation of what showing is necessary in order for a particular item of evidence to be admissible. Rather, admissibility must be left to the sound discretion of the trial judge. He must be satisfied that, in all reasonable probability, the item offered is the same as the item seized and is substantially unchanged in condition. Admissibility should not depend on the prosecution negativing all possibility of tampering or substitution, but rather only that it is reasonably probable that tampering or substitution did not occur. Contrary speculation may well affect the weight of the evidence accorded it by the factfinder but does not affect its admissibility.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . (1) the evidence offered is the same as that seized, and (2) it is in substantially the same condition.” State v. Lange, 255 N.W.2d 59, 66 (N.D.1977).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Berger · State v. Lange
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.