United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Edmonds (2001), Smith v. United States (1989)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“flight from authority implying consciousness of guilt may be considered among other factors justifying a Terry seizure.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We reaffirm our conclusion that the police officers had no legitimate basis for detaining and searching respondent before the driver's flight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`without more, present specific, articulable facts warranting suspicion of criminal activity'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.