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← 352 Md. 374 - Johnson v. State

Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Lewis v. Adamson · Beaulieu v. United States · Bryant 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When the jurors returned, the court informed them, `The reason for the judge's action is because the defendant's lawyer was about ten miles out of limit.' Shortly thereafter the court asked the jury to `disregard the sideshow.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Under the totality of these circumstances, we hold that the trial judge's comments painted such a prejudicial portrait of the defense counsel as to deny appellant his right to a fair trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “defense counsel in front of the jury); id. (”
    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.