Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division’s Empirical Analysis
230 F.3d 733 · 2000
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ward v. Hall (2010), Cannon v. Mullin (2004)
96 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Southern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Slack v. McDaniel · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enough” evidence on a certain issue); Kitchens v. Johnson, 190 F.3d 698 , 703 (5th Cir.1999) ("Did counsel investigate enough? Did counsel present enough mitigating evidence? Those questions are even less susceptible to judicial second-guessing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“By no measure can ... [the defendant] block his lawyer's efforts and later claim the resulting performance was constitutionally deficient.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. State · Grayson v. State
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.