Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
313 federal appellate · 44 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,016 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Hinson (2005), United States v. Ruiz-Terrazas (2007)
313 federal appellate · 44 district · 130 state decisions — followed in 23 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. § 1029 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Caminetti v. United States
Cited together with Johnson v. United States · United States v. Booker · Weaver v. Graham · Morrissey v. Brewer · Anders v. California
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 1,016 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law [the petitioners challenge] operates retroactively (that it applies to conduct completed before its enactment) and [whether] it raises the penalty from whatever the law provided when [they] acted.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he case turns . . . simply on whether [the statute in effect at the date of the offense] permitted imposition of supervised release following a recommitment.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a term of supervised release is revoked and the defendant is required to serve a term of imprisonment that is less than the maximum term of imprisonment authorized under subsection (e)(3), the court may include a requirement that the defendant be placed on a term of supervised release after imprisonment.”
8 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.