State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably State v. Menzies (1994), Armijo v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1995)
2 federal appellate · 61 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. Flannery · Drummond v. Fulton County Department of Family & Children's Services · Commonwealth v. Ferreira · State v. Tillman · Richard Dunn v. Everett I. Perrin, Jr., Laurence Black v. Edward Cox
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he evidence and the reasonable inferences which might be drawn therefrom must be viewed in the light most favorable to the jury verdict. A jury conviction is reversed for insufficient evidence only when the evidence, so viewed, is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime of which he was convicted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] contemporaneous objection or some form of specific preservation of error must be made a part of the trial court record before an appellate court will review such a claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[JJury instructions are to be considered as a whole...”
2 later decisions 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.