United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 54 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2020
15 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1501 (Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Frady · Hill v. United States · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin · Angrist 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] codefendant's sentence is immaterial to the propriety of a sentence imposed on a defendant. United States v. Nichols , 695 F.2d 86 , 93 (5th Cir. 1982). Indeed, 'the government is permitted to encourage guilty pleas by offering substantial benefits to a defendant, and [the appellant] having rejected the offer of a plea bargain, cannot complain that his codefendants received the benefit of a lighter sentence.' United States v. Johnson , 679 F.2d 54 , 58 (5th Cir. 1982); see also Corbitt v. New Jersey , 439 U.S. 212 , 223-24 , 99 S.Ct. 492 , 499-500 , 58 L.Ed.2d 466 (1978)."”
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.