Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.2d 127 · 1929
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Thompson v. United States (1951), United States v. Wright (1980)
82 federal appellate · 10 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Time Incorporated v. United States · Isaacs v. United States · Myers v. United States · Reynolds v. United States · De Gregorio 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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be such, and of such nature, as that, on a new trial, the newly discovered evidence would probably produce an acquittal.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence is addressed to the discretion of the trial judge. In deciding it he may utilize the knowledge he gained from presiding at the trial as well as the showing made on the motion.””
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.