Coleman v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘‘[i]n light of the strong case against [the petitioner] and the seriousness of the charges, it was improper for his attorney to fail to inves- tigate what was perhaps [the petitioner’s] sole line of defense’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bland v. Sirmons
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-08-03· cited 328×
• Duckett v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-09-04· cited 192×
• Rogers v. Gibson
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-04-12· cited 182×
• Leavitt v. Arave
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-09-07· cited 182×
• Moore v. Gibson
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-09-28· cited 175×
• State v. Ramsey
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-10-26· cited 164×
• Fox v. Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-01-06· cited 156×
• Smith v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-07-29· cited 126×
• Hooks v. Workman
  Tenth Circuit· 2010-05-25· cited 114×
• Battenfield v. Gibson
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-01-03· cited 99×
• Patton v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-09-21· cited 76×
• Malcolm Rent Johnson v. Gary L. Gibson, Warden
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-02-26· cited 74×
• Black v. Workman
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-06-14· cited 73×
• Matthews v. Price
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-05-01· cited 71×
• United States v. Fields
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-02-25· cited 71×
• Tillman v. Cook
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-06-15· cited 59×
• Freddie Davis, Cross-Appellant v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-11-25· cited 48×
• Leavitt v. Arave
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-06-14· cited 45×
• Hamilton v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-01-24· cited 42×
• Fowler v. Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-01-06· cited 28×

Cites

52 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×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Barefoot v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 4,617×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• California v. Ramos
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 1,071×
• Carter v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 552×
• Howard L. Bashor v. Henry Risley, Warden of Montana State Prison and Michael Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-02-07· cited 379×
• United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr., (Decoster Iii)
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-07-10· cited 324×
• William Anthony Brooks v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-23· cited 282×
• Tad R. Knowles v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1955-06-22· cited 248×