Johnson v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Wood v. Strickland (1975), Anderson v. United States (1974)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 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 Thompson v. City of Louisville · Pittsburgh Towing Company v. Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from place to place without any lawful purpose or object. At trial, the state had established that the defendant had been seated on a park bench at 4:25 in the morning; that just prior to his arrest the defendant had told the officers that he was waiting for a bus; that the buses had stopped service some five and one-half hours prior to the defendant's arrest; and that, when questioned by the officers, the defendant offered no explanation of what he had been doing for the previous three hours. This evidence notwithstanding, the majority of the Court concluded”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Speigner v. Jago“Most inhabitants of park benches reach their bench by wandering or strolling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Speigner v. Jago“the record is lacking in any evidence to support the judgment.”
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.