State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2021
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 Honselman v. People · Herring v. State · Commonwealth v. Poindexter · Kinnan v. State · 52 La. Ann. 1921 - State v. Vicknair
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.
“There is no provision of the Constitution that either expressly or otherwise directs or permits the courts of this state to denounce and punish as crimes acts and omissions not made punishable by statute; hence to do what we are urged would be in violation of both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phillips“[W]e cannot, in the absence of legislative enactment making such acts criminal and punishable, denounce and punish them as crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Drej““Sodomy proper is the carnal copulation of human beings in other than the natural manner; that is against nature and per anum.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Potts
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.