Carruth v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that summary dismissal was proper because the objection that counsel allegedly should have raised had no merit, given that the prosecutor's allegedly objectionable comments were permissible
• counsel is not ineffective for failing to raise a 63 CR-20-0228 meritless objection
• counsel is not ineffective for failing to raise a meritless objection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Woods v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2016-04-29· cited 6×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2018-02-09· cited 1×
• Sharifi v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2016-09-09
• Wayne Holleman Travis v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2023-03-24
• Peter Capote v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2023-05-05
• Joseph Michael Wilson v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Madison Circuit Court: CC-97-164.60)
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2024-06-28
• Jesse Earl Scheuing v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Calhoun Circuit Court: CC-09-426.60)
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2024-09-27
• Thomas Robert Lane v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court: CC-05-1499.60)
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2024-12-20
• Joseph Michael Wilson v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2025-08-22
• Jordaan Stanly Creque v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2026-06-26

Cites

71 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×
• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Engle v. Isaac
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 3,714×
• Michel v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1956-01-23· cited 2,788×
• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-11-01· cited 201×
• Haney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-06-28· cited 188×
• Ex Parte Haney
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-06-19· cited 178×
• Ex Parte Waldrop
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2002-11-22· cited 166×
• Ex Parte Rutledge
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-02-19· cited 149×
• Brownlee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-01-13· cited 141×
• Anderson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-02-22· cited 140×
• Hallford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-12-10· cited 136×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-09-26· cited 134×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-03-26· cited 129×
• State v. Klar
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-06-22· cited 121×
• Lancaster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-01-22· cited 117×