Whitehead v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 384 · 1998
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Trevino v. Johnson (1999), Fisher v. Texas (1999)
28 federal appellate ·
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 Rose v. Lundy · Picard v. Connor · Nobles v. Johnson · Fuller v. Johnson
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal habeas petition should be dismissed if state remedies have not been exhausted as to all of the federal court claims.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court must deny the COA before a petitioner can request one from this court. The rule contemplates that the district court will make the first judgment whether a COA should issue and on which issues, and that the circuit court will be informed by the district court's determination in its own decisionmaking.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cardenas v. Thaler · Black v. Davis“[T]he lack of a ruling on a COA in the district court causes this court to be without jurisdiction to consider the appeal.” (emphasis added));”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cardenas v. Thaler · Black v. Davis
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.