United States v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 243 · 1989
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably United States v. Smith (1998), United States v. Twilley (2000)
25 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Dunaway v. New York · Nix v. Williams · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Silverthorne Lumber Co. 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he illegal stop was the impetus for the chain of events leading to the [drugs] and thus is too closely and inextricably linked to the discovery for the taint to have dissipated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a result of the officers' identification of Johns and Hearron , Customs agents drew upon prior information about Johns' association with suspected narcotic smugglers and quickly began surveillance at the house of one associate. From the house, the agents followed several individuals to the marijuana that was subsequently seized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of the illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.”
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.