Johnson v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 623 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), Blanco v. Singletary (1991)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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 · Simmons v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`This court has concluded that the failure to object to improper prosecutorial arguments ... should be weighed as part of our evaluation of the claim on the merits because of its suggestion that the defense did not consider the comments in question to be particularly harmful.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Taylor v. State · Dill v. State“[n]either of these cases establishes the weight which must be given to any particular mitigating evidence, or the manner in which it must be considered; they simply condemn any procedure in which such evidence has no weight at all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the sentencing order read in its entirety, combined with the court's instructions to the jury, indicates that the trial court gave adequate consideration to the evidence presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.