State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Nero (1990), State v. Bishop (Slip Opinion) (2018)
276 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 Boykin v. Alabama · State v. Stewart · In re M.D. · State v. Rogers · State v. Griffey
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the nature of the charge and of the maximum penalty involved.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“the reasonable interpretation of the text is that”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[NJeither the United States Constitution nor the Ohio Constitution requires that in order for a guilty plea to be voluntary a defendant must be told the maximum total of the sentences he faces, or that the sentence could be imposed consecutively. Therefore, even though the trial court here did not specifically state that such sentences could run consecutively, but did explain the maximum sentences possible, there was no deprivation of appellee’s constitutional rights.”
5 later decisions 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.