Kitchens v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.3d 698 · 1999
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Smith v. Cockrell (2002)
30 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 · Drinkard v. Johnson · Hall v. Washington · Nobles v. Johnson · Green 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“argument[s] [that] essentially come[] down to a matter of degrees. Did counsel investigate enough? Did counsel present enough mitigating evidence? Those questions are even less susceptible to judicial second-guessing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As for the alcohol and drug abuse, this Court has repeatedly denied claims of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to present 'double edged' evidence where counsel has made an informed decision not to present it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were objectively reasonable based on the double-edged nature of the evidence involved.”
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.