United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.3d 535 · 2005
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Denton (2006), United States v. Jenkins-Watts (2009)
33 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · Blakely v. Washington · Almendarez-Torres 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“test for whether a reduction is appropriate is to compare the acts of the defendant `in relation to the relevant conduct for which the participant is held accountable' and measure `each participant's individual acts and relative culpability against the elements of the offense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mitigating role reduction is a question of fact”
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.