State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably State v. Middlebrooks (1992), State v. Melson (1982)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Nobles · Brown 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) In the sentencing proceeding, evidence may be presented as to any matter that the court deems relevant to the punishment and may include, ... Any such evidence which the court deems to have probative value on the issue of punishment...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hartman · State v. Keen“[[Image here]] (6) The murder was committed for the purpose of avoiding, interfering with, or preventing a lawful arrest or prosecution of the defendant or another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bush
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.