Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding trial judge did not err in concluding that evidence of objectionable living conditions at correctional center was inadequate to meet standard for justification defense and inadmissible
• “[I]t was entirely proper for the Trial Court to settle pretrial as many questions of law as possible [on the issue of duress/justification], including questions of relevancy and adequacy of certain lines of evidence.”
• earlier unreported trial court case required evidence to meet Lovercamp test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-08-06· cited 93×
• Deputy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-07-31· cited 73×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-09-07· cited 41×
• Spakes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 31×
• State v. Pichon
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1991-05-10· cited 16×
• State v. Tuttle
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-09-15· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Slavik
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-19· cited 1×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-17
• Hardman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-08-21

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Lovercamp
  California Court of Appeal· 1974-12-11· cited 172×
• State v. Palmer
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1950-03-29· cited 13×