United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.3d 849 · 1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2017
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Withrow v. Williams · Shannon v. United States · Federal Kemper Life Assurance Co. v. Bodine · Sturman v. United States · Tremont 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a jury has no sentencing role, providing sentencing information -invites jurors to ponder matters .that are not within their province, distracts them from their fact-finding responsibilities, and creates a strong possibility of confusion. Indeed, the only possible purpose that would be served by informing jurors of the mandatory sentence would be to invite jury nullification of the law.”
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.