Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Flentje v. First Nat. Bank of Wynne (2000), Echols v. State (1996)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Payne v. Tennessee · Idaho v. Wright · Delaware v. Fensterer · Walton v. Arizona
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any challenge to the conclusions reached by the state’s expert, including statistical probability of whether the test results constituted a match, would appropriately be made at trial, by cross-examination of the state’s experts and presentation by the defendant of his own experts to express differing opinions about the results of the [DNA] tests and statistical probability of a match.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Silverman v. State
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.