Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Hawkins v. State (1983), McWherter v. State (1980)
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 Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Cass v. United States · Bruce v. Estelle
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.
“evidence of the defendant's incompetency... from any source.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. State · Hawkins v. State“"An interpretation of Article 46.02(2)(b) to mean that any evidence will be sufficient to require a halting of proceedings and a separate determination on competency would produce unreasonable results not anticipated by the Legislature. Such a construction necessitates that a judge conduct a competency hearing on the basis of even the most insubstantial and inconsequential evidence and where no reasonable grounds exist for him to doubt the present mental capacity of the accused. The burden thus thrust upon trial courts, and the potential for abuse of the statute by defendants feigning mental illness, is evident. We do not believe the Legislature intended to mandate such an interruption of a trial on the merits in response to baseless claims of incompetency but only in cases where evidence on incompetency becomes so manifest as to raise a bona fide doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barber v. State · O'NEIL v. State“"Section 1. (a) A person is incompetent to stand trial if he does not have: "(1) sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding; or “(2) a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Barber v. State · Thompson 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.