Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2017
5 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 555 So. 2d 818 - Johnson v. State · 50 Ala. App. 49 - Cooks v. State · William v. State · 415 So. 2d 1140 - Ex Parte Pate · 407 So. 2d 169 - Showers 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Apparently Officer Payne also had, somewhere, the second document headed 'Evidence/Property Custody Document.' "Officer Payne had testified at trial 'it's a small bag of marijuana and there's a small piece of cocaine that was in the bag that was taken off the person of the defendant, Mr. Johnson.' " The Evidence/Property Custody Document does seem to be inconsistent in that it refers to all of the marijuana and the bag containing white powder as having been found in the 'trunk of the vehicle.' " This is the only inconsistency that the court finds in either of the documents with the officer's testimony, and is the only thing contained therein that might tend to render the trial unfair. "Nothing herein is to be taken as any finding, or inference, by this court that anyone willfully withheld these documents. As the court recalls, the entire discussion was about the officer's report, and it was furnished to the court for an in camera review. The only request by defense counsel was for the officer's 'Report.' " (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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