United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 1347 · 1978
Citation profile
158 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), Harelson v. United States (1979)
158 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Burks v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pinkerton v. United States · Dutton v. Evans · Jeffers 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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are neither outside the common understanding of a juror, nor so technical or ambiguous as to require a specific definition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“position of organizer, a supervisory position, or any other position of management.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)(1) Any person who engages in a continuing criminal enterprise shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 10 years and which may be up to life imprisonment, to a fine of not more than-,-) $100,000, and to the forfeiture prescribed in paragraph (2); except that if any person engages in such activity after one or more prior convictions of him under this section have become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 20 years and which may be up to life imprisonment, to a fíne of not more than $200,000, and to the forfeiture prescribed in paragraph ■ (2). (2) Any person who is convicted under paragraph (1) of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise shall forfeit to the United States— (A) the profits obtained by him in such enterprise, and (B) any of his interest in, claim against, or property or contractual rights of any kind affording a source of influence over, such enterprise. (b) For purposes of subsection (a) of this section, a person is engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise if— (1) he violates any provision of this sub-chapter or subchapter II of this chapter the punishment for which is a felony, and (2) such violation is a part of a continuing series of violations of this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter— (A) which are undertaken by such person in concert with five or more other persons with respect to whom such person occupies a position of organizer, a supervisory position, or an”
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.