State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Higgins (1979), State v. Blair (1982)
30 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 · State v. Lynch · State v. Mucie · State v. Agee · Commonwealth v. Smith
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur courts have repeatedly held that a punishment which is within the statutory limits for the offense, . . . is not cruel and unusual because of its duration unless so disproportionate to the offense committed so as to shock the moral sense of all reasonable men as to what is right and proper under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Repp“something must have been done by counsel in the trial, or something must have been foregone by counsel and lost to defendant, which was detrimental to the interests of defendant and advantageous to the interests of [the] witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McEntire“passion and prejudice so clearly appears from the record that the appellate court can confidently say the trial court abused its discretion by declining to reduce the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McClanahan
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.