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Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

120
cited by 120 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

114 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Romero v. State (1990), Mayes v. State (1991)

114 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Rideout v. United States · Adams v. Texas

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

  1. “Relevancy is defined to be that which conduces to the proof of a pertinent hypothesis—a pertinent hypothesis being one which, if sustained, would logically influence the issue. Hence it is relevant to put in evidence any circumstance which tends to make the proposition at issue either more or less probable.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brown v. State · Valcarcel v. State
  2. “having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Young v. State
  3. “Is there a probability that the defendant, Rafael Cortijo, would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society?”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cortijo 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.