564 So. 2d 1019 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2010
20 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 Nichols v. State · 471 So. 2d 1257 - Ex Parte Boatwright · Ex Parte Clisby · Walker v. United States · 48 Ala. App. 709 - Groce 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" The court in its discretion may take evidence by affidavits, written interrogatories, or depositions, in lieu of an evidentiary hearing , in which event the presence of the petitioner is not required; or the court may take some evidence by such means and other evidence in an evidentiary hearing. . . . "”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“facts supporting the position of each party [that] are fully set out in . . . supporting affidavits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"From the particular facts of this case, however, it is our belief that the court, in fact, intended its ruling to be a finding of fact on disputed issues, based upon the affidavits submitted by the parties. This is all that the appellant is entitled to under Temp. Rule 20, A.R.Crim.P. [Rule 32, A.R.Crim.P.]."”
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.