Rector v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 551 · 1997
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), State v. Floyd (2000)
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a tactical decision not to pursue and present potential mitigating evidence on the grounds that it is double-edged in nature is objectively reasonable, and therefore does not amount to deficient performance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mejia v. Davis · Mejia v. Stephens“[E]vidence is material only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the defendant either knew, or should have known, of the essential facts permitting him to take advantage of any exculpatory evidence.'”
3 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.