State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2008
9 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 State v. Cuckovich · State v. Crow · State v. Ayers · State v. Terry · State v. Patterson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, if the evidence in this case would have justified the conviction of the lesser degree of homicide, second degree murder, the court was required to instruct the jury as to that offense whether requested or not. Rule 26.02(6) V.A.M.R.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stapleton“The principal distinction between first and second degree murder is the element of deliberation. State v. Ayers, 470 S.W. 2d 534 (Mo. banc 1971). `It is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stapleton
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.