United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 735 · 1980
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably United States v. Rawle (1988), United States v. Mendez-Ortiz (1986)
26 federal appellate ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Walder v. United States · Lovely v. United States · United States v. Woods
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to depict herself as one whose essential philosophy and habitual conduct in life is completely at odds with the possession of a state of mind requisite to guilt of the offense charged....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“first ... determine if the proferred evidence is relevant to an issue other than the accused’s character. If so, then the trial judge must balance the evidence’s probative value against the danger of undue prejudice aroused by this form of evidence.”
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.