United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.2d 5 · 1965
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2000
19 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Smith v. Crouse · Santana v. United States · Bishop v. United States · United States v. Persico · United States v. Gersh
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“altogether too indefinite. It could be taken to mean morally convinced that it was slightly more likely that defendant was guilty than not, and “morally convinced” might mean by some means other than reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“based on reason which arises from the evidence or lack of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Louisiana
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.