United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 311 · 1972
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably United States v. Bell (1972), United States v. McDaniel (1972)
22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3501
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Glasser v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Mallory v. United States · United States v. Montos
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘[W]hen all the circumstances indicate that the defendant knew of his right to remain silent and intelligently waived that right, the refusal to sign a written waiver does not render a confession inadmissible.’ United States v. Johnson, 455 F.2d 311, 314 (5th Cir. 1972).” United States v. Vaughn, 496 F.2d 622 (6th Cir. 1974)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.