Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he fact that a witness stands accused of (for example) 'felony theft' would not, if presented to the jury, make that witness seem any more prone to testifying favorably for the State than a similarly situated witness who stood accused only of some unspecified 'felony.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jacobs v. State

2. “For the evidence to be admissible, the proponent must establish some causal connection or logical relationship between the pending charges and the witness' ... potential bias or prejudice for the State[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. State

3. “the trial court's limitation so deprived the appellant of an important untrod avenue of examining the witnesses for bias as to leave his overall opportunity for cross-examination ineffective,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jacobs v. State