Johnston v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.2d 1 · 1927
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gockley (1963), Finnegan v. United States (1953)
29 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Kirby v. United States · Metropolitan Ry Co v. Church Brightwood Ry Co · Shea v. United States · Tucker v. United States · Terry 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The general rule is unquestioned that, when a defendant is put on trial for one offense, evidence of a distinct offense unconnected with that laid in the indictment is not admissible. [Citations] While this is the general rule, the exceptions are so numerous that it has been said: “It is difficult to determine which is the more extensive, the doctrine or the acknowledged exceptions.” [Citations] .’ ” Sachs v. United States, supra, 281 F.2d at 191 .”
4 later decisions 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.