475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)
120 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · 381 So. 2d 983 - Jones 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has long been the case law of this state that malice aforethought, premeditated design, and deliberate design all mean the same thing.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Taylor v. State“To presume otherwise would be to render the jury system inoperable.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The killing of a human being without the authority of law by any means or in any manner shall be murder in the following cases: (a) When done with deliberate design to effect the death of the person killed, or of any human being....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Windham v. State
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.