Lamb v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 352 · 1999
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Jack Wade Clark Gary Johnson Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division (2000), Murphy v. Johnson (2000)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 · Lindh v. Murphy · Barefoot v. Estelle · Yohey v. Collins · Jones v. West
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Informed strategic decisions of counsel are given a heavy measure of deference and should not be second guessed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a tactical decision not to pursue and present potential mitigating evidence on the grounds that it is double-edged in nature is objectively reasonable, and therefore does not amount to deficient performance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if a state court decision is so clearly incorrect that it would not be debatable among reasonable jurists.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.