Johnson v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis
306 F.3d 249 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. McCrimmon (2006), Rowell v. Dretke (2005)
10 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Williams v. Taylor · Teague v. Lane · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Considering . . . history in light of the horrific nature of this offense, a reasonable court could conclude that there was no substantial likelihood that the outcome of the punishment phase would have been altered by evidence that [the defendant] suffered organic brain damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. State“Because any objection ... would have been overruled based on existing precedent, such an objection would have been futile. `This Court has made clear that counsel is not required to make futile motions or objections.'”
1 later decision 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.