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← 578 SO2D 419 - Johnson v. State

Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
October 2003
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · State v. Webb · 345 So. 2d 417 - Travelers Indem. Co. of RI v. Mirlenbrink · 576 So. 2d 1310 - Perkins v. State · 552 So. 2d 1099 - Byrd v. Richardson-Greenshields Securities, Inc.

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “and could destroy the family by incarcerating the child's mother when alternative measures could protect the child and stabilize the family. Comment, A Response to”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Johnson v. State · 585 So. 2d 1140 - State v. Gethers
  2. “there was a well-founded anxiety that we were looking to arrest moms. We are not looking to do that,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Johnson v. State · 585 So. 2d 1140 - State v. Gethers
  3. “To interpret this section to cover ingestion of cocaine by a pregnant woman would be a radical incursion upon existing law. A person may not be punished for a crime unless her acts fall clearly within the language of the statute. The specific language of this act does not allow the strained construction advanced by the prosecution. Neither judges nor prosecutors can make criminal laws. This is the purview of the Legislature. If the Legislature wanted to punish the uterine transfer of cocaine from a mother to her fetus, it would be up to the Legislature to consider the attending public policy and constitutional arguments and then pass its legislation. The Legislature has not done so and the court has no power to make such a law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Johnson 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.