Creel v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 385 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Johnson v. Puckett (1999), Fairman v. Anderson (1999)
15 federal appellate · 6 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Giglio v. United States · Ornelas 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requiring the defendant to show that the informant: (1) was promised, reasonably led to believe, or actually received a benefit in exchange for soliciting information from the defendant; and (2) acted pursuant to instructions from the State, or otherwise submitted to the State's control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The matter of what questions may be taken up and resolved for the first time on appeal is one left primarily to the discretion of the courts of appeals, to be exercised on the facts of individual cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green III“a case in which the death penalty is sought but not imposed ultimately is classified as a noncapital case for the purposes of a Beck analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Puckett
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.