Jerry L. Johnson v. R. C. Wright, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 828 · 1975
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Richards (1981), Commonwealth v. McNeil (1975)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Adams v. Williams · Chambers v. Maroney
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Due Process Clause [U.S. Const. *Page 266 amend. XIV, sec. 1] protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state always bears the burden of proof in a criminal trial, and any such shift renders the trial fundamentally unfair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.