Echols v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “This court will not label counsel ineffective merely because of possible bad tactics or strategy in selecting a jury.”
• a trial court’s conclusion on a question of law is given no deference on appeal
• decision not to cross-examine witness for fear of opening door to the trial court’s changing its ruling excluding evidence was an exercise of reasonable professional judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-06-29· cited 177×
• State v. Azad Haji Abdullah
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2015-03-02· cited 106×
• Isom v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-02-19· cited 42×
• State v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-09-27· cited 39×
• Echols v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-01-20· cited 29×
• Williams v. Norris
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-08-17· cited 27×
• Lee v. Alcoa Extrusion, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2005-01-26· cited 24×
• Brown v. Pine Bluff Nursing Home
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-12-02· cited 24×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-10-26· cited 18×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-06-17· cited 15×
• Shipley, Inc. v. Long
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-10-21· cited 14×
• Decay v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-09-25· cited 14×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-01-10· cited 13×
• Weatherford v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-10-13· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-12-11· cited 10×
• Rackley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-01-30· cited 8×
• Echols v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-11-04· cited 8×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-10-28· cited 7×
• Rose v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2017-05-31· cited 4×
• Burnside v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2017-12-13· cited 4×

Cites

48 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×
• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Mickens v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2002-03-27· cited 1,451×
• Wood v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 1,161×
• Echols v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-12-23· cited 121×
• Misskelley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-04-01· cited 107×
• Noel v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-09-14· cited 87×
• Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Foote
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-04-20· cited 80×
• Prater v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-11-11· cited 67×
• Thomas Winford Simmons v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-09-27· cited 65×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-06-19· cited 55×
• Echols v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-06-07· cited 54×
• Sanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-09-14· cited 47×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-05-31· cited 46×
• Missildine v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-10-25· cited 46×
• State v. Dillard
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-09-23· cited 42×