United States v. John’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 683 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably United States v. Caporale (1986), United States v. Johnson (1980)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153
Relies on Patterson v. United States · United States v. Wheeler · Keeble v. United States · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Simuel 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any Indian who commits against the person or property of another Indian or other person any of the following offenses, namely, murder ... kidnaping ... within the Indian country, shall be subject to the same laws and penalties as all other persons committing any of the above offenses, within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.””
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.