314 So. 2d 248 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2008
22 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 Brown v. State · Transportation Line v. Hope · United States Smelting Co. v. Parry · 65 So. 2d 77 - North v. State · 201 So. 2d 706 - Cirack v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have been unable to discover a case where the harmless error rule was applied in a case where the trial court failed to instruct the jury as to the lesser degrees of the offense charged”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“were the natural emanations or outgrowths of the act or occurrence in litigation, although not precisely concurrent in point of time, if they were yet voluntarily and spontaneously made so nearly contemporaneous as to be in the presence of the transaction which they illustrate and explain, and were made under such circumstances as necessarily to exclude the idea of design or deliberation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rationale for permitting testimony relating to spontaneous exclamations is that `such utterances spring spontaneously and instinctively from the stress or pain or excitement caused by the act of violence and are made so soon after the act as to preclude the idea of deliberation, fabrication or design.'”
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.