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← 317 N.C. 417 - State v. Johnson

State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

78
cited by 78 later decisions
2
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Collins (1993), State v. Brown (1987)

2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions

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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 Beck v. Alabama · New Motor Vehicle Board of California v. Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp. · State v. McClain · State v. McClain · State v. Strickland

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

  1. “[T]he court. . . errfed] in failing to instruct the jury on attempted first degree rape 4 with respect to [the victim] because there was conflicting evidence of penetration in her case. A trial court must submit a lesser included offense instruction if the evidence would permit a jury rationally to find defendant guilty of the lesser offense and acquit him of the greater. Instructions pertaining to attempted first degree rape as a lesser included offense of first degree rape are warranted when the evidence pertaining to the crucial element of penetration conflicts or when, from the evidence presented, the jury may draw conflicting inferences.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he dangerous tendency of [ Rule 404(b) ] evidence to mislead and raise a legally spurious presumption of guilt”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “`[w]here ... such evidence reasonably tends to prove a material fact in issue in the crime charged, it will not be rejected merely because it incidentally proves the defendant guilty of another crime,' but only if the sole logical relevancy of that evidence is to suggest defendant's predisposition to commit the type of offense with which he is presently charged.”
    2 later decisions 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.