United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 230 · 1976
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Alvarez (1985), United States v. Leavis (1988)
34 federal appellate · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Feola · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We do not believe Rule 609 was meant to cover this particular species of impeachment use of a prior conviction. Rule 609 was crafted to apply in those cases where the conviction is offered only on the theory that people who do certain bad things are not to be trusted to tell the truth. Here the evidence had a different, surer value in that it directly contradicted the position taken by the witness." 542 F.2d 230, 234-35 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“might have been an essential counterweight to oppressive authority in an earlier day, our civilized society could not abide it. We do not need citizen avengers who are authorized to respond to unlawful police conduct by gunning down the offending officers. Other remedies are available for those police actions that are based on unreasonable suspicions or technically defective warrants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong interest in avoiding the FBI agents' clutches”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thigpen v. Thigpen
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.