Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A defendant has the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, all facts necessary to support a motion to dismiss. Townsend v. State , 793 N.E.2d 1092 , 1093 (Ind. Ct. App. 2003), trans. denied . When a party appeals from a negative judgment, we will reverse the trial court's ruling only if the evidence is without conflict and leads inescapably to the conclusion that the party was entitled to dismissal. Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. James Hill v. State of Indiana

2. “Johnson asks us to speculate regarding how the deceased witnesses would have helped his defense, which we will not do. Moreover, the delay has not given the State any advantage over Johnson in terms of preparing for trial; Johnson has the same access to the evidence and the surviving witnesses as the State.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schiro v. State

3. “if the prosecution deliberately utilizes delay to strengthen its position by weakening that of the defense or otherwise impairs a defendant's right to a fair trial, an inordinate pre-indictment delay may be found to violate a defendant's due process rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. State