Johnson v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 107 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Parker (1994), State v. Chambers (1995)
15 federal appellate · 5 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Harris v. Reed · Anderson v. Harless · Martin v. Solem
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a reviewing court, we must make every effort “to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel’s challenged conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel’s perspective at the time,” indulging a “strong presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Billups“counsel's failure to anticipate a change in existing law is not ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kornahrens v. Evatt
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.