United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 1278 · 1973
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Stofsky (1975), United States v. Lighty (2010)
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Difronzo v. United States · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · United States v. Johnson · Larrison v. United States · United States v. Johnson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the knowledge and observations gained by presiding at the original trial in evaluating the evidence presented at the hearing [on the motion for new trial].”
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.