Goodwin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 162 · 1997
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999), Alberto Valdez v. Janie Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division - (2001)
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos 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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he presence or absence of prejudice, both with respect to claims of ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial and appellate levels, hinges upon the fairness of the trial and the reliability of the judgment of conviction resulting therefrom.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he right to effective assistance of counsel, both at the trial and appellate level, 'is recognized not for its own sake, but because of the effect that it has on the ability of the accused to receive a fair trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a nebulous expectation of help from the state”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.