Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
576 U.S. 591 · 2015
Citation profile
9 district · 24 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Taylor v. United States · Roe v. Wade · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that imposing an increased sentence under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act violates the Constitution's guarantee of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“any felony that 'involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fails to give ordinary people fair notice of the conduct [§ 2251(e)] punishes,”
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.