Clark v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding trial counsel's failure to present any available evidence at punishment in capital murder trial was not ineffective assistance absent any evidence regarding the evidence which should have been presented
• Counsel's assistance was not deficient where counsel, at the direction of his client, failed to present any available mitigating evidence during the sentencing phase of capital murder trial.
• Teague bars claim that trial court’s failure to instruct jury that petitioner would not be eligible for parole for thirty-five years if sentenced to life imprisonment violated Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-10-16· cited 319×
• Burdine v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-08-30· cited 178×
• Foster v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-10-03· cited 97×
• Grayson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-04-18· cited 52×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-09-28· cited 44×
• Smith v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-01-23· cited 43×
• United States v. Parsons
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-19· cited 38×
• Grayson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 34×
• Bishop v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-07-01· cited 34×
• Collier v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-07-25· cited 31×
• Riddle v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-04-15· cited 29×
• Owens v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-01-30· cited 11×
• Loden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-04-15· cited 10×
• Martinez v. Dretke
  W.D. Texas· 2006-03-29· cited 8×
• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 7×
• Disciplinary Board v. Howe
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-01-30· cited 2×
• Jones v. Cain
  E.D. Louisiana· 2009-02-10· cited 2×
• Matthews v. Cain
  E.D. Louisiana· 2018-08-29· cited 2×
• Toney v. Miller
  E.D. Louisiana· 2008-06-04· cited 1×
• Rosales v. Cockrell
  N.D. Texas· 2001-09-25· cited 1×

Cites

41 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• Evitts v. Lucey
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-18· cited 3,068×
• Roe v. Flores-Ortega
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 2,810×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Ex Parte Wilson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-11-05· cited 1,636×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Ross v. Moffitt
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-17· cited 1,488×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Graham v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 630×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 612×
• Wainwright v. Torna
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 561×
• Cabana v. Bullock
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-22· cited 536×