Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
May 2007
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chisolm v. State · 655 So. 2d 881 - Murrell v. State · 350 So. 2d 1384 - Watkins v. State · 406 So. 2d 824 - Boyd v. State · 706 So. 2d 254 - Bovan 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[if] you determine from the evidence that the attempted arrest is unlawful, the Defendant may use reasonable force as is necessary to effect his escape, but no more. If you find from the evidence that this is what happened, you should find the Defendant not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[the] right to resist is limited to those situations where the arrest is, in fact, illegal, and the arrestor and arrestee have reason to know that it is or where the arrest is accompanied by excessive force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allowed the jury to respond with a verdict of not guilty if jurors believed that [the officer] overreacted to events in such a way as to permit [the appellant] to begin resisting.”
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.