Brett Pensinger v. Kevin Chappell

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where counsel pursues one theory of the defense over another, counsel’s lack of request for a jury instruction on the alternate theory does not constitute deficient performance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Ruslan Kirilyuk
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-04-01· cited 34×
• Tracy Petrocelli v. Renee Baker
  Ninth Circuit· 2017-07-05· cited 9×
• Mark Rogers v. E. McDaniel
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-07-16· cited 4×
• Tracy Petrocelli v. Renee Baker
  Ninth Circuit· 2017-08-23
• People v. Drew
  California Court of Appeal· 2017-08-29
• People v. Drew
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2017-08-29

Cites

54 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×
• Slack v. McDaniel
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-26· cited 41,291×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Collins v. Youngblood
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,864×
• Thompson v. Keohane
  Supreme Court· 1995-11-29· cited 1,729×
• O'NEAL v. McAninch
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-21· cited 1,687×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• People v. Green
  California Supreme Court· 1980-04-24· cited 1,166×
• Johnson v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 2013-02-20· cited 1,086×