Ransom v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.3d 716 · 1997
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Victor Wayne Hooks v. Ron Ward (1999), Moore v. Johnson (1999)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 · Barefoot v. Estelle · Beck v. Alabama
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere possibility of a different outcome is not sufficient to prevail on the prejudice prong”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ounsel has a duty to make a reasonable investigation based on the information provided by a defendant, particularly when an alibi is involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The reasonableness of counsel's actions may be determined or substantially influenced by the defendant's own statements or actions.... In particular, what investigation decisions are reasonable depends critically on such information.'”
1 later decision 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.