United States v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 31 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2014
14 federal appellate ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Anders v. California · Komen v. Robbins · United States v. Stroud · United States v. Thompson · United States v. Perdomo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if someone in [defendant's] shoes were to say 'John Smith did it, not me,' when in fact John Smith was not involved, such a statement, we think, would be more than a simple denial of guilt and could be treated as an obstruction of justice. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice during the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no principled basis for distinguishing between laconic noes and the same lies expressed in full sentences.”
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.