Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.2d 127 · 1963
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably United States v. Myers (1982), Notaro v. United States (1966)
95 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · United States v. Sherman · Hansford 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Here the evidence does not show, as sometimes is the case, that personal importuning or coercive tactics were used by the ofScer to persuade appellant. We do have, however, the furnishing by the officer of Government money, itself a persuasive factor, to an intermediary acting for the officer in carrying out the tansaction, with a ‘reward’ to the accused of a part of its fruit. This is enough to raise a factual issue of official inducement for the jury to decide one way or the other. * * *” 115 U.S.App.D.C. at 64 , 317 F.2d at 128 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Of course, when the evidence of the prosecution itself . . . raises the issue of entrapment, that is, the issue of inducement, as we use that term, the accused himself need not assume the burden [of demonstrating inducement] Whenever the defense is asserted on evidence which gives rise to a factual issue of inducement by the Government an instruction on entrapment should be given if requested, regardless of the source from which the evidence of such inducement arises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Therefore in such cases two questions of fact arise: (1) did the agent induce the accused to commit the of-fence charged in the indictment; (2) if so, was the accused ready and willing without persuasion and was he awaiting any propitious opportunity to commit the offence. On the first questíon the accused has the burden; on the second the prosecution has it. * * * ””
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.