United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 885 · 1971
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Manbeck (1984), State v. Bankston (1973)
28 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Leary 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The government next argues that the statements of the informer at most constituted harmless error under Fed.R.Crim.P. 52(a). Erroneous admission of evidence can often be corrected by appropriate jury instructions. Conner v. United States, 5 Cir. 1963, 322 F.2d 647 . But before a constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must believe it harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Chapman v. California, 1967, 386 U.S. 18 , 22-24, 87 S.Ct. 824 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The desire of the government to show the jury why its agents were on the lookout for Johnson can in no way justify the use of prejudicial hearsay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(p)roof of an agreement to enter into a conspiracy is not to be lightly inferred,”
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.