53 F. Supp. 2d 943 - Gochicoa v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
December 2000
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Gideon v. Wainwright · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Kyles v. Whitley
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deputy Gomez . . . pulls up and tells [Prieto] that he has gotten a tip from a confidential informant concerning the defendant, and they start searching the area where [Gochicoa] was coming from for contraband that has been left behind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gochicoa v. Johnson“[O]ur conclusion that the purported . . . error was harmless forecloses any argument that deficiency in the performance of [petitioner's] trial counsel precipitated by the . . . error was prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gochicoa v. Johnson“Gochicoa was represented by counsel whose inaction and lack of basic knowledge resulted in a guilty verdict followed by a sentence of sixty (60) years in Texas prison.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gochicoa v. Johnson
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.