Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 340 · 1970
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 1994
20 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Hormel v. Helvering · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Grosso v. United States · Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · United States v. Davis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'it is the applicable law which is controlling, and not what the ... court announced the law to be in [its] instructions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A proper motion for [judgment as a matter of law] will always preserve for review the question whether under the law truly applicable to the case there was an adequate evidentiary basis for the submission of the case to the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]his Court must ascertain for itself what the applicable law is,'”
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.