United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 42 · 1947
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Momand v. Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. (1948), Keystone Insurance v. Houghton (1988)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Braverman v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Direct Sales Co. v. United States · United States v. William Rabinowich
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some of the acts necessarily occurred (prior to the statutory period), but these acts could be proved to show the existence and continuance of the conspiracy even though there could have been no prosecution for any substantive offense charged as an overt act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... it is not necessary that an overt act in furtherance of conspiracy necessarily be a criminal act ... an innocent act by a third party, if caused by a previous act or contact on the part of one of the conspirators, would be enough ... the filing of the trustee’s report ... itself a perfectly legal act, may be an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy if such filing is part of the general plan of the conspirators with regard to the subject matter in which the report is filed.” (footnotes omitted)); Winebrenner v. United States, 147 F.2d 322, 325 (8th Cir. 1945) (”
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.