Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2012
19 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 MacHibroda v. United States · United States v. Hayman · Smith v. Pollin · United States v. Pinkney · Angarano 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prisoner in custody under sentence of the Superior Court claiming the right to be released upon the ground that (1) the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution of the United States or the laws of the District of Columbia, ... may move the court to vacate, set aside, or correct the sentence. * * * * * * Unless the motion and files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief, the court shall ... grant a prompt hearing thereon ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here ... an appellant alleges that the representation of his trial counsel was ineffective, the record on direct appeal is ordinarily barren of the eviden-tiary facts which would either confirm or refute that allegation. In the instant case, for example, nothing in the record on direct appeal would illuminate appellant’s contentions that trial counsel failed to consult with him about the various aspects of the trial . . . . [Id. at 743; emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“alleg[ing] facts which, if demonstrated, would establish ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.