United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 936 · 1977
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably United States v. Williams (1979), State v. Smith (1981)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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. § 2113
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Chimel v. California · United States v. Matlock · United States v. Chadwick
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Possession of property recently stolen, if not satisfactorily explained, is also ordinarily a circumstances from which the jury may reasonably draw the inference and find, in the light of surrounding circumstances shown by the evidence in the case, that the person in possession not only knew it was stolen property, but also participated in some way in the theft of the property.””
2 later decisions 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.