State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Robinson (1992)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Jones v. Barnes · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On general principle, a person who, at the time of production for examination, understands the nature of an oath and demonstrates a mental capacity sufficient to observe, recollect and narrate the things heard and seen is competent to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] stipulation of counsel, deliberately wrought and then given effect, binds not only the client but - as the orderly administration of justice demands -- is given credit by a court of review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller 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.