153 Wis. 2d 121 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 289 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Allen (2004), 227 Wis. 2d 758 - State v. Erickson (1999)
2 federal appellate · 289 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 · United States v. Agurs · McMann v. Richardson · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage“made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“strong presumption that counsel acted reasonably within professional norms.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.