United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 106 · 1946
Citation profile
169 federal appellate · 13 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), United States v. Cronic (1984)
169 federal appellate · 13 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 18 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Holt v. United States · United States v. Johnson · Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co.
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he orderly administration of criminal justice [requires] that findings on conflicting evidence by trial courts on motions for new trial based on newly discovered evidence remain undisturbed except for most extraordinary circumstances.....””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is not the province of this Court or the circuit court of appeals to review orders granting or denying motions for a new trial when such review is sought on the alleged ground that the trial court made erroneous findings of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly appear that the findings are not supported by any evidence.”
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.