Johnson v. Mabry’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 167 · 1979
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Paxton v. Union National Bank (1982), United States v. Villano (1987)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Ex parte Lange · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · Rowley v. Welch
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the oral sentence pronounced by the sentencing judge constitutes the judgment, and anything inconsistent with the judgment which is included in a commitment order is a nullity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled that a trial court lacks jurisdiction to alter a previously imposed valid sentence once the defendant begins to serve the sentence, and for the court to subsequently alter a sentence places the defendant in double jeopardy.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appellate court has the right to interpret such evidence independently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grigsby v. Mabry
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.