Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), Stanley v. State (1988)
5 federal appellate · 56 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Agurs
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled, ... that our constitution protects an accused against conviction ‘except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged.’ (citations omitted) Our statute follows this proscription and provides that the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of at least one of the enumerated aggravating circumstances. However, the determination of the weight to be accorded the aggravating and mitigating circumstances is not a “fact” which must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but is a balancing process. Id.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“. such a statutory injunction is "an instruction for the trial court, not for the jury." Coulter v. State, 488 So.2d 386, 346 (Ala.Cr.App.1982). It would amount to an invitation to the jury to avoid the difficult duty of passing sentence upon the life of the accused. (internal cites omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hooks v. State · Ellis v. State“Statutes providing the death penalty for felony murder based on less than premeditation or express malice aforethought have been upheld against constitutional challenge. See, e.g., Collier v. State, 244 Ga. 553 , 261 S.E.2d 364 (1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 946 , 100 S.Ct. 1346 , 63 L.Ed.2d 781 (1980); and, Collins v. State, 261 Ark. 195 , 548 S.W.2d 106 (1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 878 , 98 S.Ct. 231 , 54 L.Ed.2d 158 . While one who does not himself kill, attempt to kill or intend that a killing take place or that lethal force be employed in the commission of a felony may not suffer the extreme sanction, see, Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 , 102 S.Ct. 3368 , 73 L.Ed.2d 1140 (1982), the evidence amply supports the conclusion in the case at bar that the appellant alone caused the death of the victim by suffocation after brutally raping her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Stiles 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.