Edwards v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining the petitioner must demonstrate any deficiency by trial counsel resulted in prejudice \to the point that he was deprived of a fair trial whose result is reliable\
• “The appellate court will reverse the PCR court only where there is either no probative evidence to support the decision or the decision was controlled by an error of law.”
• \The appellate court will reverse the PCR court only where there is either no probative evidence to support the decision or the decision was controlled by an error of law.\
• \The appellate court will reverse the PCR court only where there is either no probative evidence to support the decision or the decision was controlled by an error of law.\
• deferring to trial counsel's strategic considerations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smalls v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-02-07· cited 93×
• Van Sellner v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-06-29· cited 48×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-05-15· cited 17×
• Tappeiner v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-05-04· cited 15×
• Goins v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2012-05-16· cited 13×
• Garren v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-04-25· cited 5×
• Sigmon v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-05-08· cited 5×
• Putnam v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-06-08· cited 5×
• Teamer v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-04-13· cited 4×
• Winkler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-11-23· cited 4×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-01-05· cited 4×
• Buckson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-05-23· cited 3×
• Mangal v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-12-30· cited 3×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-02-28· cited 2×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2012-02-22· cited 1×
• Smalls v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-02-10· cited 1×
• Weldon v. South Carolina
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-10-06
• Freiburger v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-02-11
• Mitchell Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-05-28

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 215×
• People v. Caballero
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1990-07-16· cited 83×
• Ard v. Catoe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-03-05· cited 59×
• McKnight v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-05-12· cited 43×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-06-19· cited 42×
• State v. Franklin
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1976-07-21· cited 40×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-01-19· cited 27×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-20· cited 22×
• Whitehead v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-06-12· cited 18×
• Kolle v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2010-02-16· cited 18×
• Murray v. Griffith
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-04-17· cited 17×
• Lounds v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-12-15· cited 15×