Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 1072 · 1968
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Olen (Allen) Lee v. Nathan Habib, Olen Lee v. Nathan Habib (1970), Alley v. Dodge Hotel (1974)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on United States v. Robinson · United State v. Morgan · Mempa v. Rhay · Darr v. Burford · Coppedge 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our unrepresented petitioner’s unpunctuality may or may not have been excusable. The mere fact that he did not advance some cause for the delay is a shaky predicate for judicial action tantamount to a determination that the delay was inexcusable; an equally valid assumption was that he simply was not knowledgeable on the subject. Moreover, as we have frequently held, the endeavors of lay litigants are not to be scrutinized for the precision expected of members of the bar. In sum, the unskilled defendant cannot safely be depended upon to allege ex cusable neglect even where it is to be found. If the amendment to Rule 37(a)(2) is to have real meaning, and excusable tardiness is not to defeat meritorious appeals the court must itself delve for the truth of the matter. 22”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alley v. Dodge Hotel
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.