People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sentence concepts 'life' and 'any term of years' are mutually exclusive and a sentencing judge may (in the appropriate case) opt for either but not both,”
2 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.