State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2019
8 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 Sloan v. Hicks · Figueroa v. United States · Jordan v. Arizona · Monroe v. Louisiana · Hance v. Georgia
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and out of sight behind some shelves, and beat him with the same shovel handle so severely that he died. Id. at 1267 . At trial, the factfinder found the defendant guilty of aggravated murder, with the aggravator being that the defendant knowingly created a great risk of death to the wife when he beat the husband to death. Id. at 1266 . On appeal, our supreme court reversed, holding that the aggravator”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(d) The homicide was committed while the actor was engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit, aggravated robbery, robbery, rape, rape of a child, object rape, object rape of a child, forcible sodomy ... or aggravated sexual assault, ... aggravated kidnapping, kidnapping, or child kidnapping.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Archuleta“there may be circumstances in which a defendant may be guilty although the endangered person is physically removed from the defendant's conduct,”
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.