Donnie E. Johnson v. Ricky Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no prejudice in failure to present testimony by defendant’s family members, even though it would have humanized him by showing he had been a good son, brother and parent, because the evidence fell short of the quantum of evidence required to show prejudice
• finding no prejudice in failure to present testimony by defendant’s family members, even though it would have humanized him by showing he had been a good son, brother and parent, because the evidence fell short of the quantum of evidence required to show prejudice
• finding no deficient performance despite the absence of mitigating evidence
• court could not say that the additional testimony of family members would have led to a different result and, in addition, the testimony would have opened the door to rebuttal evidence which would have undercut the image the defense would have tried to portray with that evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ex Parte Martinez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-28· cited 284×
• Jeffrey D. Hill v. Betty Mitchell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-03-08· cited 212×
• William H. Smith v. Betty Mitchell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-02-06· cited 147×
• Scott Lee Tinsley v. George Million, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-02-22· cited 140×
• Joseph Lewis Clark v. Betty Mitchell
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-10-04· cited 123×
• Landrum v. Mitchell
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-11-04· cited 110×
• Beuke v. Houk
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-08-13· cited 99×
• Johnson v. Bell
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-05-17· cited 54×
• Loving v. United States
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2006-09-29· cited 20×
• Sowell v. Collins
  S.D. Ohio· 2008-03-31· cited 9×
• Johnson v. Bell, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2004-04-26
• Martinez, Ex Parte Jose Noey
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-28
• Tinsley v. Million
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-02-22
• Hill v. Mitchell
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-03-08
• Clark v. Mitchell
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-10-04

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Alton Coleman v. Betty Mitchell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-10-10· cited 432×
• Paul W. Greer v. Betty Mitchell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-09-04· cited 431×
• Maurice A. Mason v. Betty Mitchell
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-02-06· cited 337×
• James David Carter v. Ricky Bell, Warden Paul Summers, Attorney General
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-07-07· cited 283×
• Phillip Griffin v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-06-04· cited 234×
• John Glenn v. Arthur Tate, Jr., Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-02-26· cited 164×
• Skaggs v. Parker
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-12-18· cited 161×
• Richard H. Austin v. Ricky Bell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-10-02· cited 160×
• Ronald Eugene Rickman, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Ricky Bell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellant
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-12-02· cited 137×
• Gary Bradford Cone v. Ricky Bell, Warden, Riverbend Maximum Security Institution
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-03-22· cited 90×
• Robert Mitzel v. Arthur Tate, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-10-05· cited 86×
• State v. Johnson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-12-21· cited 56×