Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1937
10 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 Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Keener v. State · People v. Scoggins · Campbell v. People · Wiggins v. People
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.
““The testimony under consideration is relevant and pertinent AA'here it may aid, as a circumstance, in determining, in connection Avith other facts, Avhether the homicide is excusable or not; as when the evidence fairly raises the question AAdiich was the aggressor. There the proof that the deceased had made serious threats., shortly before the rencounter, may be considered by the jury for the purpose just indicated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mott v. State
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.