Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[o]ne common thread that runs through our cases is that the promise must have caused the suspect to confess. If a suspect did not rely on an interrogator’s comments, obviously the statement is admissible regardless of whether the interrogator had articulated an improper inducement.” (Emphasis added.) Thus, it is the trial judge’s responsibility to determine not only if an inducement was made, but to ascertain further whether or not the defendant was influenced by the inducement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 140 Md. App. 132 - Raras v. State

2. “Five, the youthful age of the Defendant at the time of the crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ware v. State