Dimenza v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 47 · 1942
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2013
12 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Holiday v. Johnston · Hewitt v. United States · McDonald v. Hudspeth
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the lives of a dozen persons were imperiled the fact that the draftsman chose to name each individual in a separate count rather than to include them all in one count, . . . did not constitute each count a separate and distinct bank robbery, . . . .” Dimenza v. Johnston, (9th Cir. 1942) 131 F.2d 47, 48 .”
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.