West v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.3d 1385 · 1996
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Fullwood v. Lee (2002), Moore v. Johnson (1999)
41 federal appellate · 11 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant either knew, or should have known, of the essential facts permitting him to take advantage of any exculpatory evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knew whether or not he had taken the necklace”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Brady claims involve `the discovery, after trial of information which had been known to the prosecution but unknown to the defense.'”
3 later decisions 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.