Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
365 federal appellate · 59 district · 20 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Johnson (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Morissette v. United States
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 992 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violent force-that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person.”
87 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must rise to the level of bodily injury does not suggest that without the qualification”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.