Johnson v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 106 · 1995
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland (1997), Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Teague v. Lane · 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The materiality standard under Brady v. Maryland is identical to the prejudice standard under Strickland.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conclusory allegations are not enough to warrant discovery under Rule 6 of the Federal Rules Governing Section 2254 Petitions; the petitioner must set forth specific allegations of fact; Rule 6, which permits the district court to order discovery on good cause shown, does not authorize fishing expeditions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“show[] that the favorable evidence could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the verdict”
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.