Johnson v. State of New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2,439 federal appellate · 252 district · 2,836 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6,688 later decisions (184 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Bruton v. United States (1968), Stovall v. Denno (1967)
2,439 federal appellate · 252 district · 2,836 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Townsend v. Sain · Escobedo v. Illinois
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Linkletter v. Walker · Stovall v. Denno · Jackson v. Denno
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 6,688 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.”
173 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Escobedo affects only those cases in which the trial began after June 22, 1964, the date of that decision.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Petitioners now assert that they were prevented from obtaining outside assistance while they were being interrogated. The police allegedly refused them access to their families or a lawyer and also thwarted the efforts of their relatives and friends to contact them. We have already pointed out that allegations of this kind are directly relevant to a coerced confession claim and that such a claim presents no problem of retroactivity. See also Davis v. State of North Carolina, 384 U.S. post, P. 737, 86 S.Ct. 1761 , 16 L.Ed.2d 895 .” 384 U.S. at 735, 86 S.Ct. at 1782.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.