United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 832 · 1977
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Byers (1984), United States v. Jackson (1978)
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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. § 3109 · 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the police had seen a crime actually in progress with contraband in plain view, upon entry into the premises they were fully authorized both to make arrests and to seek out the contraband. . [T]hey found that contraband in the immediate vicinity of the arrests and in the close environs of the point where it had first been seen, albeit hasty efforts at concealment had, as the police had every reason to anticipate, been made. Whether the search power in this instance be viewed as incident to arrest, or as deriv[ed] independently from the initial observation of the contraband, the materials in issue here appear to have been sufficiently within its sweep to defeat any faulting of the District Court on a plain error basis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no more than a technical trespass on the part of the officer”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sayre v. State
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.