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Johnson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

568 U.S. 289 · 2013

Citation profile

128
cited by 128 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
5
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

31 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Michigan v. Long · Harris v. Reed · Ylst v. Nunnemaker

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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “must presume that the federal claim was adjudicated on the merits.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “federal courts have no authority to impose mandatory opinion-writing standards on state courts.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “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 · 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.