State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Odom (1996), State v. Middlebrooks (1992)
7 federal appellate · 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 Zant v. Stephens · Houston v. State · 338 So. 2d 201 - Knight v. State · State v. Pritchett · People v. Lytton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“39-2-202. First-degree murder. (a) Every murder perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, or by other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing, or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any ... robbery ..., is murder in the first degree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Bell · Rickman v. State““The probability of prejudice resulting from the consideration of the improperly admitted evidence, in our opinion requires that the sentence of death be reversed and the cause be remanded ... for a sentencing hearing.” State v. Teague, Tenn., 645 S.W.2d 392, 399 (1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Terry““The murder was committed while the defendant was engaged in committing, or was an accomplice in the commission of, or was attempting to commit, or was fleeing after committing or attempting to commit, any first degree murder, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, larceny, kidnapping, aircraft piracy, or unlawful throwing, placing or discharging of a destructive device or bomb.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.