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← 39 OHIOST3D 48 - State v. Johnston

State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

465
cited by 465 later decisions
4
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 453 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 465 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Treesh (2001)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 453 state decisions

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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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Bibby v. United States

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

  1. “In determining whether the prosecution improperly suppressed evidence favorable to an accused, such evidence shall be deemed material only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A `reasonable probability' is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
    46 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 152 Ohio App. 3d 629 - State v. Condon · State v. Moore, 14-08-43 (5-4-2009)
  2. “the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
    21 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Meza, Unpublished Decision (3-18-2005) · State v. Stevenson, Unpublished Decision (9-7-2004)
  3. “Evidence is material if it is reasonably probable the result of the trial would have been different had the evidence been disclosed to the defense.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Osburn, 07ca0054 (6-23-2008) · State v. Whalen, 08ca009317 (12-22-2008)

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.