Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 309 · 1973
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Maraj (1991), United States v. Garcia (1991)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Earley v. DiCenso · Cwach v. United States · United States v. Haynes · United States v. Lewis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Johnson moved for a mistrial on the basis that this statement was not supported by the evidence. We think the court properly denied the motion. A ‘pusher’ is someone who sells illicit drugs. There was ample evidence that Johnson had in fact sold heroin illegally, and the comment was to some extent invited by the earlier comments of Johnson’s counsel to which the prosecutor- referred. The statement was neither so inflammatory nor so misleading as to require a mistrial. See United States v. Lewis, 423 F.2d 457 (8th Cir. 1970), cert. denied 400 U.S. 905 , 91 S.Ct. 146 , 27 L.Ed.2d 142 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estes v. State
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.