Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 240 · 1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1990 · most notably Farrow v. United States (1978), Barker v. United States (1978)
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Tucker · Kercheval v. United States · Somerville v. Illinois · Jacobs v. United States · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was perfunctory, in bad faith, a sham, a pretense or without adequate opportunity for conference or preparation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless it appears that the court acted unjustly or unfairly, there is no abuse of discretion,”
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.