Green v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 1115 · 1997
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Davis v. Johnson (1998), Neal v. Puckett (2002)
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · Lindh v. Murphy · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) what the state courts have done in similar’ cases; (2) whether the history of the case suggests that the state court was aware of any ground for not adjudicating the case on the merits; and (3) whether the state courts’ opinions suggest reliance upon procedural grounds rather than a determination on the merits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A 'substantial showing' requires the applicant to 'demonstrate that the issues are debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues (in a different manner); or that the questions are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.”
6 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.