Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3,963 federal appellate · 54 district · 1,382 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,605 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Puckett v. United States (2009), Neder v. United States (1999)
3,963 federal appellate · 54 district · 1,382 state decisions — followed in 46 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · Gideon v. Wainwright · Arizona v. Fulminante · United States v. Young
Cited together with United States v. Olano · Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Booker · United States v. Cotton · Blakely v. Washington
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 8,605 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
179 later decisions quote this exact passage“If all three conditions are met, an appellate court may then exercise its discretion to notice a forfeited error, but only if (4) the error seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
124 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is enough that an error be 'plain' at the time of appellate consideration.”
59 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.