United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
467 F.2d 804 · 1972
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Petrozziello (1977), United States v. Mahone (1976)
51 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 473
Relies on Glasser v. United States · J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · Graves v. United States · Stoner v. California · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the court finds that an uncalled witness is clearly favorably disposed toward one of the parties, an instruction, if requested, may properly be given that the jury may draw an inference favorable to the other party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] witness's availability is not to be decided on the basis of his physical presence in the court room or his accessibility by writ of habeas corpus or by subpoena,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a witness's practical and legal availability is to be determined on the basis of his disposition and relationship toward the parties.”
2 later decisions 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.