Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1998
5 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 140 Tex. Crim. 675 - Villareal v. State · 167 Tex. Crim. 649 - Pelton v. State · Ely v. State · Parks v. State · Haynes v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Malice aforethought is the voluntarily and intentional doing of an unlawful act by one of sound mind and discretion, and with the purpose, means and ability to accomplish the reasonable and probable consequences of the act, and includes all those states of mind under which the killing of a person takes place without any cause which will in law justify, excuse or extenuate the homicide. Malice aforethought is a condition of mind which shows a heart regardless of social duty and fatally bent on mischief, the existence of which is inferred from acts committed or words spoken. No particular time is required for the germination or growth of malice; it may occur in an instant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cherry v. State
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.