Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * The sole question presented on this appeal is whether the District Court erred in admitting into evidence certain articles found in an automobile by postal inspectors after the automobile had been lawfully repossessed by appellant’s mortgagee who granted permission to search it without a warrant. “Appellant contends that under the laws of Texas legal title to the automobile was still in his name; therefore, the postal inspectors were required to obtain his permission for a warrantless Search. The Government contends that the mortgagee had lawful possession of the vehicle; therefore, permission of the mortgagee rendered the search lawful. “The person in lawful possession of an automobile has authority to grant permission to search it. None of appellant’s constitutional liberties were violated in the circumstances. “See Abel v. United States, 362 U.S. 217, 241 , 80 S.Ct. 683 , 4 L.Ed.2d 668 (1960); Parr v. United States, 255 F.2d 86 (5 Cir. 1958). * * Johnson v. United States, 358 F.2d 139, 140 (5th Cir. 1966).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Fassler