United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
735 F.2d 1200 · 1984
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Wing Fook Lui (1991), United States v. Patterson (1987)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 28 U.S.C. § 1783 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Corallo v. United States · Mancusi v. Stubbs · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he federal courts uniformly hold ... that government agents or similar persons may testify as to the general practices of criminals to establish the defendants' modus operandi. Such evidence helps the jury to understand complex criminal activities, and alerts it to the possibility that combinations of seemingly innocuous events may indicate criminal behavior.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this context, unavailability means that the witness cannot be produced despite the prosecution's good faith efforts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abedi v. Smith
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.