Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

182

cited by 182 later decisions

cited 2 times by the Supreme Court

states following

November 2017

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 167 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 182 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), Johnson v. Mississippi (1988)

1 federal appellate · 167 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina · Zant v. Stephens · Enmund v. Florida

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

“[I]t is the duty of a trial counsel, if he deems opposing counsel overstepping the wide range of authorized argument, to promptly make objections and insist upon a ruling by the trial court. The trial judge first determines if the objection should be sustained or overruled. If the argument is improper, and the objection is sustained, it is the further duty of trial counsel to move for a mistrial. The circuit judge is in the best position to weigh the consequences of the objectionable argument, and unless serious and irreparable damage has been done, admonish the jury then and there to disregard the improper comment.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Brewer v. State · Otis v. State
“The Court instructs the jury that you need not find any mitigating circumstances in order to return a sentence of life imprisonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Clemons v. State · 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State
“Each case tried by a separate jury must stand on its own. Otherwise, the jury trial is pointless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Stringer v. State · 662 So. 2d 552 - Stewart 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.