Johnson v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 79 · 1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2009
9 federal appellate · 3 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on United States v. Raddatz · Dorszynski v. United States · Carter v. United States · Watts v. Hadden · 487 F. Supp. 977 - Johnson v. Bell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Petitioner] lacked the rehabilitative benefits of the YCA, yet he was serving a longer sentence than would an adult, and without the incentive of early release based on good-time credit that an adult would enjoy. In view of the clear congressional intent expressed in the YCA, the conditions of petitioner’s incarceration were legally unacceptable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ince petitioner was not accorded the rehabilitative opportunities that were the quid pro quo for his longer sentence, he is entitled, in equity and conscience, to the good-time credit he would have earned had he been serving an adult sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be regarded as a quid pro quo for a longer confinement.”
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.