Johnson v. Al Lockhart Adc’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 796 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2023
8 federal appellate · 2 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 · Laws v. Armontrout · Thomas v. Al Lockhart · Lawrence v. Armontrout · Blackmon v. White
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Constitution's guarantee of effective representation does not require an attorney to submit any minimum amount or particular type of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawson v. Caspari“[o]nce an attorney interviews a witness, it becomes largely a matter of legal judgment as to whether the witness should be called to testify[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawson v. Caspari“repeatedly warned against secondguessing a lawyer's trial strategy in evaluating claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Huls v. Al Lockhart
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.