Johnston v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
208 federal appellate · 27 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Travis v. United States (1961), United States v. Cores (1958)
208 federal appellate · 27 district · 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Johnston (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Angeline Lombardo · United States v. Johnson · Moses Haas v. William Henkel · United States v. Anderson
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 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'where the crime charged is failure to do a legally required act, the place fixed for its performance fixes the situs of the crime,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Venue for these prosecutions lies where, under § 12(a), supra, the registrants did ‘knowingly fail or neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him under or in the execution of this title, * * * or rules, regulations, or directions made pursuant to this title. * * * These registrants were made subject to § 12(a) by § 6(j), which declares that a conscientious objector who fails or neglects to obey an order of his local board shall be deemed to have ‘failed or neglected to perform a duty required of him’ by § 12. “The orders set out above, p. 217 [76 S.Ct., p. 741], could only be the basis of one conviction but they directed the registrant to perform two duties. The first is to report to the local board. This was done by each registrant. The second is to report for employment and to remain there in employment for 24 consecutive months. The ‘instructions to proceed’ given by the board and the statement that ‘failure * * * to proceed to the place of employment pursuant to instructions’ would constitute a crime, are for the registrant’s information. They did not create another duty. This appears emphatically from the characterization in the explanatory paragraph that failure to report or proceed to the place of employment would be a violation of orders. The crimes charged arise from failure to complete the second duty — report for employment. Accordingly venue must lie where the failure occurred.” 351 U.S. at 221-222 , 76 S.Ct. at 743 .”
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.