Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2015
18 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 Carrillo v. State · Darden v. State · Carter v. State · Cherry v. State · Patterson 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Prosecutor]: ... [D]on’t you know that there are other witnesses. Don’t you know that the people really saw what happened out there .... ⅝ ⅜ ⅝ ⅝ sjs ⅜ [W]hy don’t people come forth, ladies and gentlemen? Why won’t they get involved? Is it because they don’t care? [Defense Counsel]: Your Honor, that’s highly outside the record. [Prosecutor]: Or is it because they are afraid? [The Court]: Overruled. [Defense Counsel]: Note my exception. [Prosecutor]: I submit to you that it’s because they are afraid. They are afraid to become involved. They are afraid to put the finger on the man that nearly killed another man. If anybody has a right to be afraid of testifying it should be the man who almost lost his life. It should be the man who laid on his back for thirty days and pondered the situation out there. The man who says that when I came and testify in court I’m fair game.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. State“[t]o argue that witnesses had been afraid to appear is no less harmful than arguing that their testimony has been coerced, ... [and when] unsupported by the evidence, is to inject new and harmful facts alluding to conduct of the appellant for which he is not on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.