Johnican v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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

1. “'a trial court is prohibited from enhancing a drug offense under the general habitual offender statute where the underlying offense is not delineated in Indiana Code § 35-50-2-2(b)(4) and the defendant has not acerued two or more unrelated dealing convictions.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peoples v. State · Shepherd v. State

2. “a defendant possesses contraband on his person as he simultaneously commits other criminal offenses, the offenses should be deemed part of a single episode of criminal conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reed v. State · Cole v. State

3. “offenses or a connected series of offenses that are closely related in time, place, and cireumstance.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Green v. State · Cole v. State