Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
207 F.2d 314 · 1953
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Tillman v. United States (1969), Roberson v. United States (1957)
97 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 5
Relies on Burdeau v. McDowell · Hagner v. United States · Mattox v. United States · Wong Tai v. United States · Troutman 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever transports in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by 'fraud, * * To .show the full sweep of the statute, we set forth the balance which provides: “Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transports or causes to be transported, or induces any person to travel in, or to be transported in interstate commerce in the execution or concealment of a scheme or artifice to defraud that person of money or property having a value of $5,000 or more; or “Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in interstate or foreign commerce any falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeited securities, knowing the same to have been falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or “Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in interstate or foreign commerce, any tool, implement, or thing used or fitted to be used in falsely making, forging, altering, or counterfeiting any security, or any part thereof— “Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. “This .section shall not apply to any falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited or spurious representation of an obligation or other security of the United States, or of an obligation, bond, certi”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The indictment did not charge appellant in the alternative with having committed one or another of several offenses. He was charged with only one offense. . . . We think the indictment alleged the essential ingredients of the offense charged with sufficient certainty and did not infringe upon appellant’s right to be informed of the crime charged against him. Likewise, it is sufficiently definite so that either a conviction or an acquittal could be pleaded in bar to a subsequent prosecution for the same cause.” 207 F.2d at 320 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The gravemen of the offense prohibited by 18 U.S.C. § 2314 is the transportation in interstate ... commerce of goods with knowledge that they have been secured by the unlawful means referred to in the statute. It is immaterial whether the accused is guilty of any offense in connection with the primary wrongful taking of the goods, nor is it significant how the accused acquired possession of the goods, except that this may be shown in order to prove his knowledge of their character as being stolen, converted or taken by fraud.”
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.