United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
612 F.2d 305 · 1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Goldberg (1988), 99 Wash. 2d 80 - In Re the Personal Restraint of Hews (1983)
16 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · McCarthy v. United States · United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · Henderson v. Morgan
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'does not require the establishment in all cases of a factual basis for a guilty plea.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'it is impossible to find guilt from the facts stated as the factual basis for the plea,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(T)he facts alleged did not demonstrate, and the prosecution did not even contend, that either (defendant) had specific intent (to commit the crimes charged).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sober v. Crist
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.