Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 767 · 1948
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Koohi v. United States (1992), Saleh v. Titan Corp. (2009)
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Wallace v. United States · 74 F. Supp. 209 - Jefferson 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rational test would seem to lie in the degree of connectivity. Aiding others to swing the sword of battle is certainly a ‘combatant activity,’ but the act of returning it to a place of safekeeping after all of the fighting is over cannot logically be cataloged as a ‘combatant activity.’”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“singularly barren of Congressional observation apposite to the specific purpose of each exception”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require resort to all possible refinements of technical legal linguistics.”
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.