State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2011
20 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 In re Martin-Trigona · City of Los Angeles v. Preferred Communications, Inc. · State v. Lyle · Benton Ex Rel. Benton v. Pellum · State v. Brown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence explaining why law enforcement is in a particular area has been held to be relevant information for the jury to consider. State v. Davis, 309 S.C. 56 , 419 S.E.2d 820 (Ct.App.1992). In a recent case challenging similar testimony on the grounds of hearsay, our Supreme Court held that such testimony was “not hearsay if it is offered for the limited purpose of explaining why a government investigation was undertaken.” State v. Brown, [ 317 S.C. 55 ], 451 S.E.2d 888 (1994) (citing United States v. Love, 767 F.2d 1052 (4th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 1081 , 106 S.Ct. 848 , 88 L.Ed.2d 890 (1986)). Inferentially, the court recognized such testimony as relevant and admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirby
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.