Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Commonwealth v. Johnson (2009), Commonwealth v. Ali (2010)
47 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 Bourjaily v. United States · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Estelle v. Williams · Anderson v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Viewing the evidence in the fight most favorable to the Commonwealth as the verdict winner, and taking all reasonable inferences in favor of the Commonwealth, the reviewing court must determine whether the evidence supports the factfinder’s determination of all of the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.