United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 515 · 1977
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably United States v. Williams (1979), United States v. Von Stoll (1984)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Freed · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Roberts v. Louisiana · Lascaris v. Shirley · Board of Education v. Mapp
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he instruction is not warranted if the defense does not adequately show that the government possesses the sole power to produce the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in response to interrogation by any person then known to the defendant to be a government agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.