405 So. 2d 149 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2009
11 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · United States v. Hyde · Meeks v. Florida · Windsor 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[All] persons concerned in the commission of the crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, must be indicted , tried and punished as principals.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We have often held that unnecessary averments in an indictment do not impair its validity, although they may hold the prosecution to the proof of them. McDaniel v. State, 20 Ala.App. 407, 410 , 102 So. 788 (1924), cert. denied, 212 Ala. 415 , 102 So. 791 (1925); Fitzgerald v. State, 53 Ala.App. 663 , 303 So.2d 162 (1974). "As long as the remaining portions of the indictment validly charge a crime, the existence of surplusage in the indictment will not effect the validity of a conviction. United States v. Hyde, 448 F.2d 815, 839 , (5th Cir.1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1058 , 92 S.Ct. 736 , 30 L.Ed.2d 745 (1972)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An `oral demurrer' is by nature a defective procedure that would not under usual circumstances preserve for our review the issue concerning the validity of the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker 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.