Johnson v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2025
18 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 Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · Ex Parte United Service Stations, Inc. · Clark v. District Court, Second Judicial District, City & County of Denver · Bond v. District Court In & For the County of Denver · R.K. v. Ramirez
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[sJuch sacrifice is warranted by the social importance of interests and relationships that the privileges seek to protect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'relevance alone cannot be the test, because such a test would ignore the fundamental purpose of evi-dentiary privileges, which is to preclude discovery and admission of relevant evidence under prescribed circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“regardless of the ultimate outcome of any appeal from a final judgment.”
2 later decisions 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.