Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Johnson v. Singletary (1991), 558 So. 2d 4 - State v. Glenn (1990)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Sanders v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The credibility of the criminal justice system depends upon both fairness and finality. The time limitation of rule 3.850 accommodates both interests. It serves to reduce piecemeal litigation and the assertion of stale claims while at the same time preserves the right to unlimited access to the courts where there is newly discovered evidence or where there have been fundamental constitutional changes in the law with retroactive application.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“counsel in the postconviction hearing candidly stated that when Johnson's lawyers decided to go to federal court, they elected to raise only certain claims and assumed that they could always come back to state court and raise others”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“motion to vacate a sentence that exceeds the limits provided by law ... shall be filed or considered pursuant to this rule if filed more than 2 years after the judgment and sentence become final ...”
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.