State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 278 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Coley (2001), State v. Dean (Slip Opinion) (2015)
2 federal appellate · 278 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · State v. Thompkins · State v. Bradley
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the state can meet the joinder test, it need not meet the stricter 'other acts' test.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Addison · State v. Morsie“an accused is not prejudiced by joinder when simple and direct evidence exists, regardless of the admissibility of evidence of other crimes under Evid.R. 404(B).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Addison · State v. Morsie“When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, `the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
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.