State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2025
9 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. Ross · South Dakota v. Opperman · Francis v. Franklin · Colorado v. Bertine · Illinois v. Lafayette
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession of property, recently stolen, when no satisfactory explanation of such possession is made, shall be deemed prima facie evidence that the person in possession stole the property.” . The only differences between the instruction in this case and the instruction in Perez tire as follows: the use of the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlson“[The existence or absence of justification for the impoundment of an automobile may be determined from the surrounding - cireum-stances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fair 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.