Johnson v. Wj Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 232 · 1983
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Bouchillon v. Collins (1990), Alexander v. McCotter (1985)
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Furman v. Georgia · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“positively, unequivocally and clearly generate a real, substantial and legitimate doubt as to the mental capacity of the petitioner to meaningfully participate and cooperate with counsel during a criminal trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he burden imposed upon a habeas petitioner to demonstrate incompetency in fact at the time of trial is extremely heavy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can be made only by looking to the law of the state where the indictment was issued.”
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.