Brennan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no misconduct in prosecutor’s admonition to jury to “not let his professor-like looks deceive you, because he is a cold- 9 blooded killer”
• rejecting the claim that counsel was ineffective for not objecting when the prosecutor referred to the defendant as “a cold-blooded killer” during argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lambert v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-03-05· cited 456×
• State v. Morton
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1998-07-30· cited 222×
• Denlinger v. Brennan
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-06-24· cited 65×
• Neal v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-21· cited 12×
• Ellison v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-10-04· cited 12×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Maldonado v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-10-20· cited 345×
• Drollinger v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-08-26· cited 122×
• Bustamante v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-08-07· cited 109×
• Reinbold v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-06-08· cited 75×
• Phillips v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-03-07· cited 67×
• Best v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-02-15· cited 54×
• McFarland v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-06-14· cited 41×
• Vaughn v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-08-04· cited 38×
• Mers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-08-08· cited 33×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-07-01· cited 11×