Johnson v. Chrans’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 482 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2012
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Bibby v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'may, in appropriate cases, bow to accommodate other legitimate interests in the criminal trial process.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his case presents a conflict between the rights of criminal defendants under the sixth and fourteenth amendments to present evidence in their own defense and the state's 'sovereign prerogative' to regulate the presentation of evidence in its courts”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.