Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2008
13 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado · Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Goodwin · Wright v. North Carolina Et Al.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What goes wholly overlooked in [the majority’s] analysis is that the recipients of police warnings are often frightened suspects unlettered in the law, not lawyers or judges or others schooled in interpreting legal or semantic nuance. Such suspects can hardly be expected to interpret, in as facile a manner as [the majority], the pretzel-like warnings here-intertwining, contradictory, and ambiguous as they are.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: All right. Well, let’s get the formalities out of the way. "RUSH: Okay. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Need anything to drink or anything or— "RUSH: No. I’m okay. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Okay. "RUSH: Actually, I was wonderin’, I don’t know why I’m even here. The detective, police showed up at my door and arrested me, said I had a warrant. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Okay. Cindi, how far'd ya get in school? "RUSH: Ninth grade. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Do you know how to read? "RUSH: Yeah, I’ve taken GED classes and I just haven’t been able to go take the test. I'm very (unintelligible). I have my CNA license and everything. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Okay. All right. Just to prove to me that you know how to read— "RUSH: Mm-hmm. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN:—I’m going to let you read a portion of this statement for me, okay? "RUSH: Okay. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Can you move that chair on up? Read this first sentence— "RUSH: Mm-hmm. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN:—on the top line for me. “RUSH: 'I am now going to read to you your rights under the law.' "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: Very good. All right. I’m gonna read the rest to you out loud and then we'll go over it together, okay? "RUSH: Okay. "DETECTIVE JERNIGAN: 'I'm now going to read you your rights under the law. If you do not understand something that I say to you, please stop me and I will explain it to you. You have the right to remain silent. If you choose to give up this right, anything that you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to ta”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rush v. State · Duckworth v. Eagan“[t]he warning of a right to counsel would be hollow if not couched in terms that wou d convey to the indigent—the person most often subjected to interrogation—the knowledge that he too has the right to have counsel present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duckworth v. Eagan
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.