8 F. Supp. 2d 897 - Davis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Sumner v. Mata · Marshall v. Lonberger
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I had to shoot the man. He was going to take the gun away from me.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Johnson
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.