Johnston v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. ““A witness may be impeached by evidence that he has made at other times statements inconsistent with his present testimony. The statements must first be related to him, with the circumstances of times, places, and persons present, and the witness shall be asked whether he has made such statements and if so, shall be allowed to explain them. If the statements are in writing, they shall be shown to the witness before he is asked any question concerning them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beavers v. State

2. ““Under our governing rules of procedure, a party may impeach his own witness by showing at other times he made statements inconsistent with his present testimony. The prosecution in the case at bar employed this technique to introduce Cash’s prior statements which were inconsistent . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beavers v. State

3. ““The court . . . shall give the following basic instructions on all proper occasions: (2) That the testimony of an accomplice ought to be viewed with distrust . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beavers v. State