Washington v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 945 · 1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Nobles v. Johnson (1997), United States v. Kaluna (1998)
4 federal appellate ·
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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Wainwright v. Witt · Dusky 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]efore the federal district court has a duty to investigate a habeas petitioner's claim of incompetency, the petitioner must show that there are sufficient facts to 'positively, unequivocally and clearly generate a real, substantial and legitimate doubt as to the mental capacity of the petitioner to meaningfully participate and cooperate with counsel during trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must demonstrate that the issues are debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues in a different manner; or that the questions are 'adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The nature of the penalty in a capital case is a 'proper consideration in determining whether to issue a certificate of probable cause, but the severity of the penalty does not in itself suffice to warrant the automatic issuing of a certificate.' " Washington v. Johnson, 90 F.3d 945 , 949 (5th Cir.1996) (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 , 893, 103 S.Ct. 3383, 77 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1983)). In a capital case, "any doubts whether CPC [the predecessor to the COA] should be issued are to be resolved in favor of the petitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lamb 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.