United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.2d 423 · 1972
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States of America v. Disantillo, Michele Romeo (1980), United States v. Schwartz (1990)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 26 U.S.C. § 7212
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · Henry v. Mississippi · Parham v. Cortese · Fuhrman v. United States Steel Corp.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 . . . (Italics added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Specific sections of the charge taken out of context are often used to form the basis for arguments alleging prejudicial error. We have looked at the whole cloth of the trial, including the entire charge....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of this section [Sec. 111] is to provide federal officers the protection of federal courts when such officers are performing their duties.”
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.