Johnson v. Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
331 federal appellate · 35 district · 876 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,550 later decisions (73 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Brown v. Illinois (1975)
331 federal appellate · 35 district · 876 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright
Cited together with Apodaca v. Oregon · Jackson v. Virginia · Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 1,550 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all evidence is “fruit of the poisonous tree” simply because it would not have come to light but for the illegal actions of the police. Rather, the more apt question in such a case is whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n amending the Constitution to guarantee the right to jury trial, the framers desired to preserve the jury safeguard as it was known to them at common law. At the time the Bill of Rights was adopted, unanimity had long been established as one of the attributes of a jury conviction at common law. It therefore seems to me, in accord both with history and precedent, that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury verdict to convict in a federal criminal trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““... that rational men disagree is not in itself equivalent to a failure of proof by the state, nor does it indicate infidelity to the reasonable doubt standard.””
5 later decisions 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.