Ex Parte Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2014
23 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 358 So. 2d 1040 - Bankston v. State · Dunn v. State · 414 So. 2d 993 - Ex Parte Allen · 348 So. 2d 524 - MacK v. State · Vaughn 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the issue of self-defense is raised, the State 'must prove that the accused did not act in self-defense in the sense that the State must prove a prima facie case of unjustified homicide.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n order to be acquitted the evidence must raise in the minds of the jury a `reasonable doubt' as to whether the defendant acted in self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must counter any evidence presented by the defendant which would raise a reasonable doubt as to the existence of one of those elements.”
1 later decision 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.