38 App. D.C. 347 - Johnson v. States’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1964
4 federal appellate ·
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
Relationships
Relies on Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Crain v. United States · Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Benson v. United States · Powers 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, “Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree, shall suffer death unless the jury qualifies its verdict by adding thereto ‘without capital punishment’, in which event he shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life * *”
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.