United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 565 · 1991
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Ortiz (1992), United States v. Innamorati (1993)
25 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States v. O'Brien · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Arnett v. Kennedy · New York v. Ferber
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.
“the ability to take readily available items and ... using knowledge and skills gained through extensive education and on the job training ... rework them so that they become a radio controlled detonating device underscores the sophistication of appellants' handiwork”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is precisely their skill in making extraordinary the ordinary that warrants a finding of 'sophistication' under § 2M5.2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the potential for death to innocent people”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.