Emery v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the failure to assert a meritless objection cannot be the grounds for a finding of deficient performance
• failure to assert a meritless objection cannot be the grounds for a finding of deficient performance

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Cited by

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

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-06-17· cited 811×
• Barrientes v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-09-05· cited 237×
• Ex Parte Tuley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-07-02· cited 229×
• Fisher v. State of Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-22· cited 181×
• United States v. Michael K. Leggett
  Third Circuit· 1998-12-03· cited 165×
• Feliz Talaz Villegas v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-14· cited 159×
• Henderson v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-06-09· cited 114×
• Hughes v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-06-05· cited 106×
• Rivera v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-10-22· cited 99×
• Nelson v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-12-14· cited 79×
• United States v. Mullins
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-12-16· cited 73×
• Robertson v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-14· cited 67×
• United States v. Brown
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-06-29· cited 63×
• Troy Clark v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-03-05· cited 60×
• Felix Rocha v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-11-17· cited 53×
• Coble v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-08-14· cited 45×
• Martin Sauceda Vega v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-07-30· cited 44×
• Bower v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-08-16· cited 42×
• Ogan v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-28· cited 41×
• United States v. Flores-Martinez
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-04-16· cited 40×

Cites

50 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×
• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Estelle v. McGuire
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-04· cited 8,719×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• McCleskey v. Zant
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-16· cited 3,331×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• Johnson v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1993-08-09· cited 750×
• Graham v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 630×
• Emery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-05-11· cited 456×
• United States v. Donald Teague
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-02-26· cited 386×
• Ex Parte Carr
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-17· cited 239×
• Green v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-06-30· cited 234×
• Amos v. Scott
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-08-08· cited 194×
• Clark v. Collins
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-04-14· cited 158×
• Murch v. Mottram
  Supreme Court· 1972-11-06· cited 152×
• Fearance v. Scott
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-06-19· cited 129×
• Gary Graham v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Dept. Of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-01-03· cited 129×
• Ex Parte Davis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-18· cited 113×
• Roy Garland v. Ross Maggio, Jr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-10-17· cited 112×

Other cases named Emery v. Johnson

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Emery v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-09-10· cited 66×
• Emery v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1998-11-02· cited 26×
• Emery v. Johnson
  S.D. Texas· 1996-08-30· cited 5×
• Emery v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1998-11-02