Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

142 state decisions

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

1. “There must be a reasonable suspicion by the officer that some activity out of the ordinary is occurring or had occurred, some suggestion to connect the detained person with the unusual activity, and some indication that the activity is related to a crime.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. State · Townsend v. State

2. ““It matters not whether the person was moving or standing still when the police officer accosted him; what matters is that the person was then restrained in his freedom to move. Thus, when a person is sitting in a parked car and a police officer orders him to roll down the window or open the door, there is at that point a temporary seizure for investigative detention — a ‘stop.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garza v. State

3. “This was more than a trace and showed that the drug was quantitatively measurable. Kent v. State, 562 S.W.2d 855 (Tex.Crim.App.1978). Further, the methamphetamine could be seen without the aid of a microscope. The evidence is enough to support the appellant’s conviction. Johnson, 658 S.W.2d at 627 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chavez v. State