United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 1129 · 1973
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Johnson v. United States (1979), United States v. Kopituk (1982)
100 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 472
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Harrington v. California · Opper 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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant has an extremely difficult burden of showing on appeal that the lower court's action was an abuse of discretion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the trial progressed it became clear that the prejudice to Johnson of defending at a joint trial with Smith outweighed any possible disruption in the judicial process which would result from having separate trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If it appears that a defendant ... is prejudiced by a joinder of ... defendants ... for trial together, the court may grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires.”
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.