Johnson v. Cabana’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 333 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2019
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Sanders v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle · Francis v. Franklin · Michigan v. Jackson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court judicially knows that the representation of a person charged with a capital offense imposes the heaviest professional responsibility known to the practice of law. Common experience and prior precedent demonstrates that collateral review of death penalty verdicts frequently include Sixth Amendment attacks on the effectiveness of previous counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Johnson's present condition ` may ' impair his relations with his counsel”
1 later decision 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.