Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 1121 - Alvarado v. Superior Court (2000), State v. Steve (1988)
1 federal appellate · 44 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 Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · Rose v. Lundy · Schapansky v. Department of Transportation · Ortiz v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]udden heat requires 'sufficient provocation to engender ... passion.' ... Sufficient provocation is demonstrated by 'anger, rage, sudden resentment, or terror that is sufficient to obscure the reason of an ordinary person, prevent deliberation and premeditation, and render the defendant incapable of cool reflection.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to make, repeal, disregard, or ignore the law as it exists.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Armstead v. State · Stanek v. State“sufficient provocation to engender ... passion.”
4 later decisions 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.