United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 1120 · 1989
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably United States v. Sanchez (1990), United States v. Williams (1990)
71 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 18 U.S.C. § 984 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“balanc[e] the public interest in protecting the flow of information [about criminal activity] against the individual's right to prepare his defense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not allege facts which would indicate that disclosure was 'essential to a fair determination of [his] cause'”
6 later decisions 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.