Childress v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 1221 · 1997
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably O'Brien v. Dubois (1998), Martin Daniel Appel v. Martin Horn Commissioner Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Strickland v. Washington · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Cronic · Soberon 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive denial of counsel occurs ... in only a very narrow spectrum of cases where the circumstances leading to counsel's ineffectiveness are so egregious that the defendant was in effect denied any meaningful assistance at all.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constructive denial of counsel as described in Cronic affords only a narrow exception to the requirement that prejudice must be proved”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“critical question in assessing a ... right to counsel claim is whether the [defendant] asserts that he received incompetent counsel, or none at all.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Black v. Davis · In Re VV
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.