Cockrum v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 297 · 1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2010
3 federal appellate · 1 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 · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Jusino v. Brown · McKinney v. Baldwin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" See Hernandez v. Johnson , 108 F.3d 554 , 562-64 (5th Cir. 1997); West v. Johnson , 92 F.3d 1385 , 1410 (5th Cir. 1996), cert. denied , [520] U.S. [1242], 117 S.Ct. 1847 , 137 L.Ed.2d 1050 (1997); Woods v. Johnson , 75 F.3d 1017 , 1035 (5th Cir.), cert. denied , [519] U.S. [854], 117 S.Ct. 150 , 136 L.Ed.2d 96 (1996); Callins v. Collins , 998 F.2d 269 , 278 (5th Cir. 1993), cert. denied , 510 U.S. 1141 , 114 S.Ct. 1127 , 127 L.Ed.2d 435 (1994) (all rejecting ineffective-assistance claims where alleged failures to investigate mitigating evidence did not prejudice the defendant because of the double-edged nature of the evidence available)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Giles v. State
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.