State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Fujioka Ex Rel. Fujioka v. Kam (1973), State v. Freitas (1979)
36 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 Glasser v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Swain v. State of Alabama · Brown v. Allen · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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.
““[Wjhat is prohibited by the equal protection guaranty is class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others. The guaranty was not intended to take from the states the right and power to classify the subjects of legislation, provided such classification of persons and things is reasonable for the purpose of legislation.” Id., 51 Haw. at 203 , 456 P.2d at 810 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Miwa“[t]he general law is that one who assails the constitutionality of a classification has the burden of proving that it does not rest upon reasonable basis and that it is an invidious discrimination * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.