Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Johnson v. State (1988), McGuire v. State (1981)
25 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 Faretta v. California · Maynard v. Meachum · Webb v. State · Geeslin v. State · Trevino 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However commendable it may be for a trial judge to admonish one accused of a misdemeanor offense, as he must where a person is charged with a felony, see Article 26.13, V.A.T.C.C.P., ... there is no requirement in Texas law for a trial court to admonish an accused person of anything if the offense is classified as a misdemeanor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Dumitru · State v. Kanapa“It is recognized that a person who appears in court without counsel to confess his guilt is equally without counsel as one who appears in court to contest it. However, “self-representation,” as enunciated in Faretta , applies only to the latter and not to the former. In the former, the issue is not whether the trial court admonished the accused of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, but rather whether there was a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hatten v. State · McCain v. State“[t]hat I know that I have the right to be represented by an attorney in this cause, and that if I cannot afford to hire an attorney, then the Court would appoint an attorney to represent me; that I have no attorney and after being informed by the Court of my right to have an attorney, I wish to exercise my Constitutional right to proceed to trial without the benefit of counsel. I further state that I have been informed by the Court and I fully understand the dangers and disadvantages of proceeding to trial without the assistance of counsel. I voluntarily waive my right to have an attorney defend me in this cause. I am fully competent, and I am fully prepared to enter a plea and fully understand the nature of the charges against me.”
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.