9 Md. App. 327 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably United States v. Ash (1972), 101 Md. App. 585 - Emory v. State (1994)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Simmons v. United States · Dunlop v. United States · Lawrence v. State · 2 Md. App. 80 - Boone v. State · MacEwen v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The theory for the admission of such evidence is that persons who conspire to commit a crime, and who do commit a crime, are as much concerned, after the crime, with their freedom from apprehension, as they were concerned, before the crime, with its commission.... ’ [quoting 2 Wharton’s, Criminal Evidence, § 430 (12th ed. 1955) ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivenbark v. State“When several persons are proved to have unlawfully conspired to commit a crime, the acts and declarations of any conspirator during such conspiracy, and in furtherance thereof, are admissible as substantive evidence against any co-conspirator on trial. Wharton’s Criminal Evidence (12th Ed.) Yol. II, Sec. 416.”
1 later decision 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.