State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2015
16 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Purkett v. Elem
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he State’s reasons were not merely pretextual; that the strikes, I don’t believe, were racially motivated in this case and I — this Court’s chief consideration being the plausibility of the Prosecutor’s explanation in view of the totality of the facts and circumstances surrounding the issues in this matter. So I do make that finding at this time. I also note there — there was not a — a tremendous number of — of black people — or people of color, as we would call it — on this panel to choose from, but there has been one strike, and that’s the only strike that I see in term — or that I know of by the State, in any event, that was— that even had the plausibility of being racially motivated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin“Once the State offers its race-neutral explanation, the burden of production shifts back to the defendant to show that the proffered race-neutral explanation is pretextual and that the strikes were racially motivated. In order to meet this standard, defense counsel must present evidence or specific analysis showing that the State’s explanation is pretextual. Defense counsel cannot simply rely on conclusory allegations that the real motivation for the strike was racial in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin“The trial judge is obligated to apply a three-pronged analysis in assessing the explanations provided by the prosecutor. Trial judges must evaluate the susceptibility of the particular case to racial discrimination, the prosecutor’s demean- or and, finally, the judge must evaluate the explanation itself. Crucial to the analysis is whether similarly situated white venirepersons escaped the state’s challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin
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.