Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964), Commonwealth v. Redline (1958)
3 federal appellate · 43 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cartwright v. Cartwright · Martin Estate · Commonwealth v. Wentzel · Commonwealth v. Gibbs · Commonwealth v. Mills
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if certain evidential material, having a legitimate probative value, tends nevertheless to produce also, over and above its legitimate effect, an unfair prejudice to the opponent * * * there is good ground for excluding such evidence, unless it is indispensable for its legitimate purpose.”
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.