Johnson's Case’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gateley's Case · Collatos v. Boston Retirement Board · Rambert v. Commonwealth · McDonough's Case · 62 Mass. App. Ct. 701 - Richards's Case
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statute designed to enforce the law by punishing offenders, rather than simply by enforcing restitution to those damaged, is in the nature of a penal statute.”
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.