United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 683 · 1984
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Lister v. United States (1984), United States v. Alvarez (1985)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pinkerton v. United States · Michelson 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not fall within the scope of the unlawful project, or was merely a part of the ramifications of the plan which could not be reasonably foreseen as a necessary or natural consequence of the unlawful agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attributing the acts of [Myers, Gordon and James to one another] is not so attenuated that such due process concerns would apply here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the doctrine of vicarious guilt may have due process limitations,”
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.