Bledsoe v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Strickland test used to determine whether trial counsel was deficient for failing to request a defense of dwelling instruction.
• counsel’s “performance falls short when measured against the yardstick of objective reasonableness”
• must be unaware of evidence “at the time of trial and direct appeal”
• counsel’s “performance falls short when measured against the yardstick of objective reasonableness”
• choice of witnesses belongs to counsel
• ineffective assistance of counsel standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Sola-Morales v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-10-24· cited 489×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-12-23· cited 164×
• State v. Cheatham
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-01-25· cited 164×
• Edgar v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-07-27· cited 147×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-01-30· cited 111×
• Khalil-Alsalaami v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-05-14· cited 102×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2016-08-05· cited 95×
• State v. Patton
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-11-14· cited 94×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-12-30· cited 91×
• State v. Hargrove
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2013-02-01· cited 90×
• Boldridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-09-11· cited 77×
• State v. Peters
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2024-09-20· cited 77×
• Pabst v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-09-19· cited 70×
• Wilkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-08-22· cited 51×
• Moncla v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-03-05· cited 46×
• In re the Care & Treatment of Ontiberos
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-08-17· cited 44×
• State v. Overstreet
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-01-30· cited 41×
• Kargus v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2007-10-15· cited 39×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2022-02-25· cited 39×
• State v. Shelly
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2016-03-25· cited 33×

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Roe v. Flores-Ortega
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 2,810×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 813×
• Chamberlain v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-01-26· cited 282×
• State v. Tosh
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-06-25· cited 217×
• State v. Elnicki
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-02-18· cited 169×
• State v. Gleason
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-04-23· cited 149×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-06-13· cited 105×
• State v. Rice
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-01-31· cited 99×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-05-30· cited 77×
• State v. Neer
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1990-07-13· cited 74×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-11-12· cited 72×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-06-03· cited 63×
• State v. Cheun-Phon Ji
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1992-05-22· cited 62×
• State v. Ames
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-04-09· cited 59×
• State v. Plaskett
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-07-27· cited 59×
• Mullins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2002-05-24· cited 57×
• State v. Mann
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2002-10-25· cited 56×
• Winter v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1972-11-04· cited 53×