Dwayne Henry v. Thomas Poole, Superintendent Five Points Correctional Facility and Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that in order to sustain a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must establish that “absent [counsel’s] errors, the factfinder would have had a reasonable doubt respecting guilt”
• “[Rjeliance on counsel’s competency [in totality as opposed to particular deficient respect] ... fail[s] to apply the Strickland standard at all.”
• “[E]ven strategic choices made after less than complete investigation do not amount to ineffective assistance—so long as the known facts made it reasonable to believe that further investigation was unnecessary.” (citing Strickland, 466 U.S. at 690–91)
• faulting counsel for failing to discover obvious discrepancy in dates
• “[I]n the absence of a contrary decision by this Court en banc, or an intervening Supreme Court decision, we are bound to follow the precedents set in [earlier cases] that the N.Y. Court of Appeals standard is not ‘contrary to’ Strickland.”
• “counsel must have ‘wide latitude’ in making tactical decisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Charles C. Greiner v. Ronald Wells
  Second Circuit· 2005-08-08· cited 216×
• Ben Gersten v. Daniel Senkowski, Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility, Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 2005-10-17· cited 143×
• Maynard v. Boone
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-10-26· cited 122×
• Rosario v. Ercole
  Second Circuit· 2010-04-12· cited 110×
• United States v. Rosemond
  Second Circuit· 2020-05-01· cited 69×
• Gomez v. Brown
  S.D. New York· 2009-08-20· cited 65×
• Drake v. Portuondo
  Second Circuit· 2009-01-23· cited 61×
• United States v. Dennis Wellington
  Second Circuit· 2005-08-03· cited 53×
• Ramchair v. Conway
  Second Circuit· 2010-04-02· cited 44×
• Edwards v. Superintendent, Southport C.F.
  E.D. New York· 2013-07-19· cited 41×
• Yannai v. United States
  E.D. New York· 2018-11-06· cited 33×
• Cornell v. Kirkpatrick
  Second Circuit· 2011-12-01· cited 32×
• Skakel v. Comm'r of Corr.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-05-04· cited 27×
• Kimbrough v. Bradt
  N.D. New York· 2013-06-11· cited 26×
• DiMattina v. United States
  E.D. New York· 2013-06-13· cited 26×
• Rosario v. Ercole
  S.D. New York· 2008-10-22· cited 19×
• People v. Jarvis
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2014-01-03· cited 17×
• Espinal v. Bennett
  E.D. New York· 2008-12-05· cited 16×
• Maldonado v. Burge
  S.D. New York· 2010-03-23· cited 16×
• Burch v. Millas
  W.D. New York· 2009-08-14· cited 13×

Cites

28 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• People v. Baldi
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-10-29· cited 6,191×
• McMann v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 5,113×
• People v. Benevento
  New York Court of Appeals· 1998-06-11· cited 4,938×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Lockhart v. Fretwell
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,956×
• Michel v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1956-01-23· cited 2,788×
• Affronti v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-12-05· cited 1,308×
• People v. Flores
  New York Court of Appeals· 1994-07-07· cited 400×
• Francis S. v. Stone
  Second Circuit· 2000-08-09· cited 328×
• People v. Henry
  New York Court of Appeals· 2000-12-21· cited 327×
• People v. Hobot
  New York Court of Appeals· 1995-01-17· cited 323×
• George Lindstadt v. John P. Keane, Superintendent
  Second Circuit· 2001-01-04· cited 288×
• Louis Eze v. Daniel A. Senkowski, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 2003-02-12· cited 266×
• United States v. Milton Parness and Barbara Parness
  Second Circuit· 1975-01-13· cited 119×
• Christopher Loliscio v. Glenn Goord, as Warden, Clinton Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 2001-08-30· cited 91×
• Robert A. Bloomer, Jr. v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1998-12-03· cited 74×
• People v. Claudio
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-12-21· cited 56×