Johnson v. Hargett’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 855 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States v. Garth (1999), Briddle v. Scott (1995)
16 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier
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.
“[T]he term 'actual innocence' means factual, as opposed to legal, innocence--'legal' innocence, of course, would arise whenever a constitutional violation by itself requires reversal, whereas 'actual' innocence, as the Court stated in McCleskey, means that the person did not commit the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Johnson“[B]ecause there is no constitutional right to counsel in federal habeas, under McCleskey, no error by counsel in a habeas proceeding can constitute cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“extraordinary instances when a constitutional violation probably has caused the conviction of one innocent of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez 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.