Woods v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 1017 · 1996
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999), Dion Smallwood v. Gary Gibson Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma - (1999)
30 federal appellate · 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in virtual equipoise as to the harmlessness,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'had [a] substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that absent the error the verdict would have been different; and”
3 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.