State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State v. Deckard (2000), Edwards v. United States (1990)
27 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 Solem v. Helm · Porzig v. Nolden · Carnegie v. United States · Stringer v. Mississippi · State v. Brown
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the words of the statute, ‘serious physical injury,’ are defined to include those instances where the assault results in a substantial risk of death, the latter term is not itself defined. The meaning as related to a particular set of facts must therefore be gleaned from the words themselves taken in their ordinary significance and usage. At a minimum, substantial risk of death suggests a condition of endangerment with cause for apprehension of life-threatening consequences. Obviously, however, the survival of the victim demonstrates that the ultimate event was avoided and that the injury was therefore not one predictably certain to result in death. This circumstance is indicated by use of the word ‘risk’ which connotes something less than a probability or likelihood. State v. Ellis, 639 S.W.2d 420, 422 (Mo.App.1982). The mere fact that a victim of an assault recovers without residual damage does not render proof of serious physical injury insufficient. State v. Emory, 643 S.W.2d 24, 27 (Mo.App.1982). The question is whether the injuries inflicted in the assault, viewed objectively, are of a degree of severity sufficient to raise a legitimate concern either that the victim could expire or could suffer more than a momentary loss of a bodily function.” Johnson, 770 S.W.2d at 265-66 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams · State v. Baker“[i]t was, under the facts here, untenable to suggest that the dangerous instrument or deadly weapon components of the statute were implicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'may be determined from evidence of [her] conduct before the act, the act itself and from the defendant’s subsequent conduct.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Light
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.