United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 1225 · 1977
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Greer v. Miller (1987), United States v. Shaw (1983)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Doyle v. Ohio · United States v. Hale · Strunk v. United States · United States v. Eagle
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in each instance the desire to remain silent was so tightly intertwined with the other utterance that the two portions must be considered as a whole--a single testimonial entity. Any other rule would be highly artificial....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) testimony that defendant appeared surprised upon learning of the presence of the cocaine, (b) the challenged testimony, (c) defendant's immediately subsequent denial of knowledge of the cocaine, and (d) testimony that defendant had bought the suitcase in a Miami flea market about a week prior to her trip to Panama, and kept the suitcase by her bed while in Panama.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“expression of a desire to remain silent was coupled with other words indicating something else--a desire to cooperate or to tell the customs officials something, and an assertion that she had an explanation.”
1 later decision 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.