State v. Johnstone’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably State v. Spica (1965), State v. Johnson (1976)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Moore v. State of Missouri · State v. Reese · City of St. Louis v. Butler Co. · Finnegan v. United States · State v. McGee
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A real substantive federal question should exist for the transfer of a cause to Banc. The mere allegation of the existence of a federal question is not sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White 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.