Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Muniz v. State (1993), Amores v. State (1991)
45 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 United States v. Watson · Hawkins v. State · Galitz v. State · Dinnery v. State · Baity 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[If] the guilty plea or plea of nolo conten-dere is supported by evidence as required by Article 1.15, [V.A.C.C.P.], which is independent of the judicial confession and the tainted evidence, then any erroneous ruling on an appealable pre-trial motion does not vitiate the conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McKenna v. State · McKenna v. State“(a) Any peace officer may arrest, without warrant: (1) persons found in suspicious places and under circumstances which reasonably show that such persons have been guilty of some felony or breach of the peace, or threaten, or are about to commit some offense against the laws; ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rance v. State · Muniz v. State“[I]t shall he necessary for the state to introduce evidence into the record showing the guilt of the defendant and said evidence shall be accepted by the court as the basis for its judgment and in no event shall a person charged be convicted upon his plea without evidence to support the same.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burger v. State · Pitts 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.