Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2009
9 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 Chambers v. Maroney · Klingler v. United States · Fuqua v. State · 260 So. 2d 425 - Wolf v. State · 235 So. 2d 920 - Powe v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You are instructed that if there are any facts or circumstances in this case susceptible of two interpretations, one favorable and the other unfavorable to the accused, and then [sic] the jury has considered such facts and circumstances with all of the other evidence, there is a reasonable doubt as to the correct interpretation, then you must resolve such doubt in favor of the accused and palce [sic] upon such facts and/or circumstances the interpretation favorable to the defendant.”
1 later decision 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.