Johnson v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2020
1 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Dombrowski v. Pfister
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) It shall be unlawful and a class D offense for any person to loiter in or near any thoroughfare, street, highway, or place open to the public in a manner and under circumstances manifesting the purpose of inducting, enticing, soliciting, or procuring another to commit an act of prostitution, lewdness, or assignation. (b) Among the circumstances which may be considered in determining whether this purpose is manifested are that such a person (1) is a known prostitute, pimp, or sodomist; (2) repeatedly beckons to, stops or attempts to stop or engages passersby in conversation; or (3) repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waving of arms or any bodily gesture. (c) No arrest shall be made for a violation of this subsection unless the arresting officer first affords such person an opportunity to explain his conduct, and no one shall be convicted of violating subsection (a) if it appears at trial that the explanation given was true and disclosed a lawful purpose. (d) For the purpose of subsections (a) and (b) the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) Prostitution shall mean the giving or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire or the giving or receiving of the body for licentious sexual intercourse without hire. (2) Lewdness shall mean sodomy, cunnilingus, fellation, masturbation or analingus. (3) Assignation shall mean the making of any appointment or engagement for prostitution or lewdness or any act in furtheran”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a manner and under circumstances manifesting the purpose of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would certainly be dangerous if the legislature could set a net large enough to catch all possible offenders, and leave it to the courts to step inside and say who could be rightfully detained, and who should be set at large. This would, to some extent, substitute the judicial for the legislative department of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.