State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 47 Cal. 3d 746 - People v. Garrison (1989), State v. Diaz (1993)
42 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Washington v. Texas · Estelle v. Williams · United States v. Hale · Webb v. Texas · Medlin v. Mann
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the evidence has relevancy to explain the cireum-stances surrounding the instant crime, it is admissible for that purpose; and the fact that it may tend to connect the defendant with another crimel[, wrong, or act] will not render it incompetent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that was the beginning of a string of events all closely related in time that ended with the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“minimally probative evidence need not ... be excluded”
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.