Ohio v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
445 federal appellate · 63 district · 1,099 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,871 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Harris v. Reed (1989), United States v. Halper (1989)
445 federal appellate · 63 district · 1,099 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Brown v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · North Carolina v. Pearce · Whalen v. United States
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 1,871 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
150 later decisions quote this exact passage“if it is evident that a state legislature intended to authorize cumulative punishments, a court's inquiry is at an end”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Grady v. Corbin · White v. Howes“designed to ensure that the sentencing discretion of the courts is confined to the limits established by the legislature.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. State · State v. Carter
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.