White v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 197 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Gochicoa v. Johnson (2000)
4 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 · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Kyles v. Whitley · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a constitutional obligation [upon the state] to provide an indigent criminal defendant with access to the assistance of a psychiatrist in the following two circumstances: (1) “when a defendant demonstrates to the trial judge that his sanity at the time of the offense is to be a significant factor at trial” and (2) “in the context of a capital sentencing proceeding, when the State presents psychiatric evidence of the defendant’s future dangerousness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nixon v. Epps“Ake recognizes a constitutional right on the part of a criminal defendant to the assistance of a psychiatrist in two general circumstances: (1) “when [the] defendant demonstrates to the trial judge that his sanity at the time of the offense is to be a significant factor at trial,” and (2) “when the State presents psychiatric evidence of the defendant’s future dangerousness” during a capital sentencing hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur conclusion that the purported . . . error was harmless forecloses any argument that deficiency in the performance of [petitioner's] trial counsel precipitated by the . . . error was prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gochicoa v. Johnson
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.