Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Moore v. State (1998), Green v. State (1992)
43 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York
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.
“[I]f the issue of “sudden passion” is raised but a jury finds a defendant guilty of the offense of murder as alleged in the indictment, this Court will make two determinations in a sufficiency analysis: “(1) whether the evidence was sufficient to establish the offense of murder and (2) whether the evidence was sufficient to disprove the issue of [sudden passion].” Jefcoat v. State, 644 S.W.2d 719, 725 (Tex.Crim.App.1982) (panel opinion and rehearing denied by Court en banc). “To prove the absence of sudden passion, the State may present evidence tending to establish its converse — e.g., that at the moment he intentionally or knowingly killed, appellant was capable of, and did in fact act with cool reflection, in spite of circumstances that may well have been provocative.” Gold v. State, 736 S.W.2d 685, 690 (Tex.Crim.App.1987).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A jury may not, however, find facts necessary to establish the absence of sudden passion “purely on the basis of its disbelief of the accused’s contrary assertions”; the State bears the burden of presenting the factfinder with sufficient evidence to negate any claim of sudden passion beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. West v. State · Garza v. State“(A) a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or (B) anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
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.