Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · United States v. District Court · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive possession exists when a person does not have actual possession but instead knowingly has the power and intention at a given time to exercise dominion and control of an object, either directly or through others.”
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.