United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1073 · 1980
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2025
18 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments)
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Mesarosh v. United States · E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Train · United States v. Alessio · United States v. Brewster
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“makes attempted bribery a crime, and so long as a bribe is 'offered or promised' with the requisite intent 'to influence any official act' the crime is committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not necessary to show that the official accepted the bribe [to be liable under § 201(b)(1)] . . . . [S]o long as the money is offered with corrupt intent, the official does not necessarily even need to be aware of the bribe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“money was knowingly offered to an official with the intent and expectation that, in exchange for the money, some act of a public official would be influenced.”
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.