State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Yarbrough (2002), State v. Bayless (1976)
61 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 Furman v. Georgia · Brown v. Allen · Strauder v. West Virginia · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · Beck v. Washington
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The examination of jurors on their voir dire affords the best test as to whether prejudice exists in the community against the defendant, and where it appears that opinions as to the guilt of the defendant of those called for examination for jurors are not fixed but would yield readily to evidence, it is not error to overrule an application for a change of venue, in absence of a clear showing of an abuse of discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bayless“[I]t is not necessary that every jury contain representatives of all economic, social, religious, racial, political, and geographical groups in the community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.