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Goodwin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

632 F.3d 301 · 2011

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

Relationships

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

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. Taylor · State v. Jenks · Murray v. Carrier

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

  1. “' "[I]n order to establish prejudice, the new evidence that a [postconviction] petitioner presents must differ in a substantial way-in strength and subject matter-from the evidence actually presented at sentencing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “different from and much stronger than the evidence presented on direct appeal,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “much more extensive, powerful, and corroborated,”
    1 later decision 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.