Johnson v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 1479 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Frazier (2004), Hamilton v. Southland Christian School, Inc. (2012)
22 federal appellate · 4 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Chambers v. Mississippi · Lockett v. Ohio · Washington v. Texas · Smith v. Phillips
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You think you're a smart son-of-a-bitch don't you?,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Those issues which were raised before the district court and have not been asserted on appeal are deemed abandoned (i.e., the trial judge's application of the Tedder standard; the admission of interior photographs and an alleged due process violation for failure to remand).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we must determine whether there is any indication that the sentencing judge felt himself bound as a matter of law not to consider the mitigating circumstances offered by Johnson.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. Dugger
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.