United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 936 · 1991
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States of America v. Don Phillip Deangelo (1994), United States v. Betts (1994)
58 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · United States v. Dennis · United States v. Lewis · United States v. O'Connell
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive amendments occur when the terms of the indictment are altered in effect by either the admission of evidence or the use of jury instructions which modify the essential elements of the offense charged so that a substantial likelihood exists that the defendant was convicted of an offense other than that charged in the indictment.”). 6 . By contrast, where a defendant does not object at trial, a court may grant discretionary relief only if the defendant can prove that plain error occurred, that the error affected his substantial rights, and that the error”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order for the trial court to admit evidence under Rule 404(b), the evidence must satisfy the following conditions: 1. The evidence of the bad act or other crime is relevant to a material issue raised at trial; 2. The bad act or crime is similar in kind and reasonably close in time to the crime charged; 3. There is sufficient evidence to support a finding by the jury that the defendant committed the other act or crime; and 4. The potential prejudice of the evidence does not substantially outweigh its probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court has broad discretion to admit such evidence and its discretion will not be overturned unless it is clear that the evidence had no bearing upon any of the issues involved.”
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.