Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “of any possible increased sentence by reason of the fact of a prior conviction or convictions.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grimes v. State · Avery v. State

2. “"Petitioner [has] the burden of proof and stands in the shoes of one appealing from a negative judgment. The trial judge, as trier of the facts, is the sole judge of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses. It is only where the evidence is without conflict and leads to but one conclusion, and the trial court has reached an opposite conclusion, that the decision will be disturbed as being contrary to law." Johnson v. State, (1983) Ind., 453 N.E.2d 975, 976 (quoting Neville v. State, (1982) Ind., 439 N.E.2d 1358, 1360 ) (citations omitted); Neal v. State, (1983) Ind., 447 N.E.2d 601, 602 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State

3. “"What is at stake for an accused facing death or imprisonment demands the utmost solicitude of which courts are capable in canvassing the matter with the accused to make sure he has a full under standing of what the plea connotes and of its consequences. When the judge discharges that function, he leaves a record adequate for any review that may be later sought and forestalls the spinoff of collateral proceedings that seek to probe murky memories." (Citations omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Grimes v. State