Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
506 F.2d 640 · 1974
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Seales v. State (1979), United States v. Easter (1976)
44 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Russell
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A more appropriate nomenclature for the standard would be to test for the degree of competence prevailing among those licensed to practice before the bar. The standard would refer more precisely to the professional competence of one who has completed a long and arduous course of study for professional license, and who has acquired some experience in applying legal principles and conducting court trials.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The defendant bears the heavy burden of proving unfairness resulting from alleged ineffective assistance of counsel. The standard to be applied in assessing a claim of ineffective or inadequate representation is based on the particulars of each case and is not easily reduced to any formula or ‘to precise words capable of rigid application.’ [as previously recited in Garton v. Swenson, supra].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the events took place in an apartment which Johnson shared with his sister as well as because Jones was present and had access to the drugs”
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.