Johnson v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
265 federal appellate · 19 district · 374 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 941 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons (2005), Miller v. Alabama (2012)
265 federal appellate · 19 district · 374 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Griffith v. Kentucky
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 941 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility are found in youth more often than in adults,”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he relevance of youth as a mitigating factor derives from the fact that the signature qualities of youth are transient; as individuals mature, the impetuousness and recklessness that dominate in younger years may subside.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“unless there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury applied the challenged instruction in a way that prevents the consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Gall v. Parker · Underwood v. Royal
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.