Cotton v. Cockrell

How courts have described this case

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

• granting relief only when counsel’s tactics or strategy are “so ill chosen [as to] permeate[] the entire trial with obvious unfairness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dockins v. Hines
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-06-29· cited 355×
• United States v. Holmes
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-04-06· cited 181×
• United States v. Elashyi
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-12-29· cited 91×
• Neville v. Dretke
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-08-25· cited 77×
• United States v. Martinez-Larraga
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-02-07· cited 65×
• United States v. Clark
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-07-27· cited 61×
• Rowell v. Dretke
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-01-25· cited 54×
• Pape v. Thaler
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-06-23· cited 54×
• Scheanette v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-03-27· cited 49×
• Parr v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-12-07· cited 43×
• Kerry Allen v. William Stephens, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-11-09· cited 28×
• Taylor v. Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-10-13· cited 27×
• United States v. Orlando Cordia Hall
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-07-05· cited 25×
• Skinner v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-05-14· cited 24×
• Nelson Gongora v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-02-27· cited 14×
• Gutierrez v. Dretke
  W.D. Texas· 2005-09-27· cited 14×
• Martinez v. Dretke
  W.D. Texas· 2006-03-29· cited 8×
• Ruiz v. Thaler
  W.D. Texas· 2011-04-06· cited 7×
• Bartee v. Quarterman
  W.D. Texas· 2008-08-06· cited 6×
• Berkley v. Quarterman
  W.D. Texas· 2007-08-24· cited 6×

Cites

40 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×
• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Lockhart v. Fretwell
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,956×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Woodford v. Visciotti
  Supreme Court· 2002-11-04· cited 2,207×
• Penry v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-04· cited 946×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 647×
• Neal v. Puckett
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-03-15· cited 288×
• Barrientes v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-09-05· cited 237×
• Finley v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-28· cited 230×
• Smith v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-11-04· cited 167×
• Martinez v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-07-20· cited 159×
• George Guy Derden, III v. Sheriff Sammie McNeel and Attorney General--State of Mississippi
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-12-16· cited 156×