State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Roberts (1997), State v. Clemons (1997)
60 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 · Carolco Television Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co. · Feltrop v. Missouri · State v. Blankenship · State v. Feltrop
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“15. Movant alleges in point 12f that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to file a motion with the court to order that Billy Stephan’s fingerprints be compared to the unidentified prints found on the tape which was used to secure movant on the night of March 15, 1995. Movant presented the testimony of two experts on fingerprint forensics regarding the quality of the latent prints found on the duct tape and the ability to identify the prints by comparison to other prints. Sarita Lang testified for movant that the original latent prints were not very good prints. The prints were of poor quality. Ms. Lang could not say that the prints were or were not made by movant or Lawanda Mason. Movant then called a Mr. Mettenberg who indicated that three photographed latent fingerprints “could be” identified with two of the prints being in the category of “doubtful” as to identification. Even assuming that a latent fingerprint on the duct tape could be identified as belonging to Billy Stephan, there was no evidentiaxy foundation at trial that Billy Stephan was present at the scene at the time of the murder and committed any act in furtherance of the murder of Charles Mason. Movant’s incredible post conviction relief testimony is not sufficient to lay this foundation, as noted above. At trial, the best movant could have hoped for was to show the jury that Billy Stephan had at one time handled the duet tape. Based on movant’s prior statements and the lack of credible evidence regarding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stephan
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.