Johnson v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 1166 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Sawyer v. Whitley (1992), State v. Ledbetter (2005)
23 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actually innocent of the death penalty by presenting evidence that an alleged constitutional error implicates all of the aggravating factors found to be present by the sentencing body.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[f]ederal review of a petitioner's claim is barred by the procedural default doctrine if the last state court to review the claim states clearly and expressly that its judgment rests on a procedural bar ... and that bar provides an adequate and independent state ground for denying relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a narrow second exception: 'in an extraordinary case, where a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.