Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Purlee (1992), Alvarado v. State (1995)
2 federal appellate · 112 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 Smith v. State · Roy v. State · Lapp v. State · Chatman v. State · 135 Tex. Crim. 659 - Davis 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his person a handgun, illegal knife, or club. * * ⅝⅞ ⅜ *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(d) If the issue of the existence of a defense is submitted to the jury, the court shall charge that a reasonable doubt on the issue requires that the defendant be acquitted.” See V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 2.03(d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chanslor v. State“was not required to believe the defendant's testimony as to his reason for carrying the pistol, even if it is not controverted (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mattias 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.