United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 503 · 1943
Citation profile
842 federal appellate · 81 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,476 later decisions (78 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Holland v. United States (1955), Costello v. United States (1956)
842 federal appellate · 81 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Johnson (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 550 · 26 U.S.C. § 145 · 28 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Cobbledick v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Blair v. United States
Cited together with Holland v. United States · Costello v. United States · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Spies v. United States · Smith 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 1,476 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he correctness or credibility of no materials underlying [Agent Knee's testimony] was even remotely foreclosed ... or withdrawn from proper independent determination by the jury.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`indispensable secrecy of grand jury proceedings,'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“concealment is an invincible barrier to proof”
7 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.