United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 682 · 1998
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Milan (2002), United States v. Tupone (2006)
18 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Chapman v. United States · Rewis v. United States · Callanan v. United States · United States v. McQuilkin · United States v. Wong
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant was at least eighteen years old at the time the defendant committed the instant offense of conviction, (2) the instant offense of conviction is a felony that is either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense, and (3) the defendant has at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he sequence of the Sentencing Guideline Application Instructions... indicates that downward adjustments are allowed only for acceptance of responsibility after career offender status is imposed.”
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.