Johnigan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably Burns v. State (1977), Garcia v. State (1978)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Wall v. State · 169 Tex. Crim. 178 - Krzesinski v. State · 44 Tex. Crim. 335 - Brock v. State · 160 Tex. Crim. 138 - Davis v. State · 45 Tex. Crim. 234 - Moore 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The husband and wife may, in all criminal actions, be witnesses for each other, but except as hereinafter provided, they shall in no case testify against each other in a criminal prosecution..."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State · Young v. State““This Court has held that it is reversible error for the State to show that the defendant’s wife is assisting in the prosecution of the case, even though she has not testified.” (Citations). Id., at 211 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter 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.