Clayton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[rJeasonable choices of trial strategy, no matter how ill fated they appear in hindsight, cannot serve as a basis for a claim of ineffective assistance.”’
• “It is not ineffective assistance for an attorney not to call a witness that might undermine the whole theory of trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Worthington v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2005-05-31· cited 246×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-04-01· cited 76×
• McIntosh v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2013-11-26· cited 59×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-11-20· cited 50×
• BAUMRUK v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-04-17· cited 49×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-06-11· cited 43×
• Knese v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-10-22· cited 33×
• Bradley v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2009-09-01· cited 32×
• Holman v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2002-09-03· cited 28×
• Christeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2004-04-13· cited 23×
• Francis v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-01-31· cited 16×
• Wagoner v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-07-11· cited 15×
• MacLin v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-02-07· cited 14×
• Wren v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2010-06-15· cited 11×
• Boyd v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2002-10-01· cited 11×
• State ex rel. Cecil Clayton v. Cindy Griffith, in her capacity as Warden, Potosi Correctional Center
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2015-03-14· cited 10×
• State v. McCoy
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2006-05-24· cited 9×
• Woodworth v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2010-08-10· cited 9×
• Dishmon v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-03-27· cited 8×
• Taylor v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2005-10-06· cited 7×