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People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
5
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably People v. Smith (2005), People v. Scearce (2003)

34 state decisions

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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 People v. Smith

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he amount of restitution shall be fixed by the court at the time of sentencing and shall be endorsed upon the mittimus.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Mata · People v. Fichtner
  2. “We read § 16-11-102(4) simply to require the sentencing court to fix the defendant’s criminal liability for restitution by considering the victim’s actual monetary losses- [It] does not require the sentencing court to determine a defendant’s criminal liability for restitution in accordance with the strict rules of damages applicable to a civil case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Duran
  3. “As a condition of every sentence to probation, the court shall provide that the defendant make restitution to the victim of his conduct or to a member of the victim’s immediate family for the actual damages which were sustained. Such restitution shall be ordered by the court as a condition of probation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Fichtner

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.