State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Taylor (1992), 96 N.C. App. 589 - State v. Parks (1989)
43 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. Blackstock · State v. Torain · State v. Boone · State v. Ysaguire · State v. Belton
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a sentence is within the statutory limit it will be presumed regular and valid unless `the record discloses that the court considered irrelevant and improper matter in determining the severity of the sentence.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a sentence within the statutory limit will be presumed regular and valid, such a presumption is not conclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`express indication of improper motivation.'”
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.