United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 999 · 1991
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Ross (1996), United States v. Tocco (2000)
36 federal appellate · 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bourjaily v. United States · California v. ARC America Corp. · Stafford v. Oklahoma · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any error, defect, irregularity or variance which does not affect substantial rights shall be disregarded”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from which the jury might have concluded”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ere idle chatter, narrative declarations and superfluous casual remarks are not statements in furtherance of a conspiracy,”
2 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.