United States v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 220 · 1925
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Kyles v. Whitley (1995), Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985)
61 federal appellate · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Grin v. Shine · United States of America v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company · United States v. Keitel · United States v. Thomas
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t seems to us that under this law the person required to pay over the tax is a debtor and not a bailee. The money paid for the tax is not identified at the outset but is paid with the price of the ticket that belongs to the owner of the show.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not grant a certiorari to review evidence and discuss specific facts.”
2 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.