Eric Blackmon v. Tarry Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the standard “is demanding and permits federal court review only in the extraordinary case”
• holding that the standard “is demanding and permits federal court review only in the extraordinary case”
• explaining that the standard “is demanding and permits [federal court] review only in the extraordinary case”
• noting that a state court’s decision is entitled to deference, “so long as it is not objectively unreasonable”
• explaining that unreasonableness of counsel's failure to investigate was compounded by \significant potential benefits of obtaining alibi testimony from witnesses unimpaired by family ties to [the petitioner]\
• explaining that findings regarding the rate of error in eyewitness identification of strangers “have only limited application when multiple witnesses identify the same person.” (quoting Bartlett, 567 F.3d at 907)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fontenot v. Crow
  Tenth Circuit· 2021-07-13· cited 234×
• Arnold v. Dittmann
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-08-24· cited 95×
• Triandus Tabb v. Tim Christianson
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-04-28· cited 63×
• Jeremiah Felton v. Byran Bartow
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-06-18· cited 46×
• Terez Cook v. Brian Foster
  Seventh Circuit· 2020-01-29· cited 30×
• Skakel v. Comm'r of Corr.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-05-04· cited 27×
• Jerry Wilson v. Dan Cromwell
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-01-23· cited 27×
• Winstead v. Lafayette County Board of County Commissioners
  N.D. Florida· 2016-06-20· cited 14×
• Michael Meyers v. David Gomez
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-10-06· cited 14×
• James Freeman v. Guy Pierce
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-12-27· cited 11×
• Skakel v. Comm'r of Corr.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2016-12-30· cited 7×
• People v. Quickle
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-03-25· cited 5×
• United States v. Redwood
  N.D. Illinois· 2016-10-20· cited 1×
• Milton v. Boughton
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-08-30· cited 1×
• Eric Blackmon v. Gregory Jones
  Seventh Circuit· 2025-03-20· cited 1×
• Skakel v. Commissioner of Correction
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2017-05-16
• Richard Arnold v. Michael Dittmann
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-08-24
• Olu Rhodes v. Michael Dittmann
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-09-10
• Jerry Wilson v. Dan Cromwell
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-06-01
• Arthur Grady v. Charles Truitt
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-07-20

Cites

56 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Schlup v. Delo
  Supreme Court· 1995-01-23· cited 7,671×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• O'Sullivan v. Boerckel
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-07· cited 6,799×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Cullen v. Pinholster
  Supreme Court· 2011-04-04· cited 5,931×
• Bousley v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-18· cited 5,336×
• McQuiggin v. Perkins
  Supreme Court· 2013-05-28· cited 3,838×
• Michel v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1956-01-23· cited 2,788×
• House v. Bell
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-12· cited 2,367×
• Rompilla v. Beard
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-20· cited 1,891×
• Affronti v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-12-05· cited 1,308×
• Kuhlmann v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,205×
• James Perruquet v. Kenneth R. Briley
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-11-17· cited 441×
• Peter Lewis v. Jerry Sternes
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-12-06· cited 420×
• People v. Ortiz
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2009-11-19· cited 376×
• Trest v. Cain
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-09· cited 363×
• Sharpe v. Bell
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-29· cited 227×