State v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• there is no rule in this State specifying any numerical time limitations beyond which a prior conviction is inadmissible for impeachment purposes
• a prior conviction of a crime of moral turpitude may be used for the purpose of impeaching a party witness’ credibility if the conviction is not too remote in time
• identifying forgery as a crime of moral turpitude

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Mueller
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-07-17· cited 42×
• State v. Hyman
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-07-22· cited 40×
• State v. Livingston
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-05-21· cited 34×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1991-08-12· cited 28×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-11-12· cited 15×
• State v. Sarvis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1994-10-24· cited 8×
• Legare v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 7×
• Green v. Hewett
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-08-12· cited 5×
• Rouse v. McCrory
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-12-29· cited 3×
• State v. Scott
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-03-17· cited 1×
• In the Matter of John Keith Blincow, Jr.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-02-19

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1977-04-13· cited 29×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1977-09-20· cited 9×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1978-08-09· cited 5×
• Spears v. Collins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1970-01-06· cited 3×