Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1988
9 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except in self-defense, an officer cannot resort to the extremity of killing, or shedding blood, in arresting or in preventing the escape of one charged with an offense less than felony, even though the offender cannot be taken otherwise. 159 Tenn. at 243 44, 18 S.W.2d at 381 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boles“use all the necessary means to effect the arrest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tennessee v. Garner
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.