United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 111 · 1941
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1943), United States v. Johnson (1946)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 550 · 18 U.S.C. § 551 · 28 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Hagner v. United States · Blair v. United States · United States v. Trenton Potteries Co. · Crain v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we are loath to repudiate a holding of our own court, we are of the view that there is no such thing as a de facto Grand Jury in a Federal Court .... A United States District Court . . . is of limited jurisdiction with such powers only as are expressly conferred. A Grand Jury is a “creature of statute.” In re Mills, Petitioner, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“having begun but not finished during said December Term . . . an investigation of the matters charged in this indictment, and having continued to sit by order of this Court . . . during the February and March Terms ... for the purpose of finishing investigations begun but not finished during said December Term. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as aiders and abettors are charged with an offense which extended over a period of years.”
1 later decision 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.