Johnson v. Lumpkin’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 630 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Evans v. State (1997), Lincoln v. Sunn (1987)
36 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Santobello v. New York · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Cronic · Sanders v. United States
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.
“As a general rule, fundamental fairness requires that promises made during plea-bargaining and analogous contexts be respected.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the same ground presented in the subsequent application was determined adversely to the applicant on the prior application, (2) the prior determination was on the merits, and (3) the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits of the subsequent application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. Gotcher“In essence, [28 U.S.C. Sec. 2244] vests district courts with the discretion to decline to consider on habeas corpus contentions previously considered and rejected on prior applications for the writ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. Gotcher
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.