Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
513 federal appellate · 64 district · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Taylor v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Tennessee v. Garner · Russello v. United States
Cited together with Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Begay v. United States · James 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 1,004 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”
95 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.