United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 1206 · 1973
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 4 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably United States v. Beechum (1978), United States v. Harris (1976)
82 federal appellate · 4 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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. § 6002 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Pinkerton v. United States · McCarthy v. United States · Kastigar 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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a witness intends to claim the privilege as to essentially all questions, the court may, in its discretion, refuse to allow him to take the stand.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“personal perception of the peculiarities of the case”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But the waiver of privilege to be inferred from the guilty plea is only for purposes related to a determination of guilt or innocence of the crime admitted. Pleading guilty to a crime does not waive the privilege not to incriminate oneself at other times in other crimes, any more than conviction of one crime erases the privilege as it relates to others (citations omitted). 26”
3 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.