Evans v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial counsel’s tactical decision not to present witnesses with questionable credibility did not constitute ineffective assistance
• holding that because petitioner “cannot demonstrate that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion [for a mistrial], appellate counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise the meritless issue on direct appeal”
• finding that counsel was not - 19 - ineffective for failing to call an unavailable witness at trial where reasonable efforts were made to find the witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-07-01· cited 82×
• Paul H. Evans v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-10-23· cited 70×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-10-18· cited 67×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-06-27· cited 51×
• Troy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-01-06· cited 48×
• & SC14-2278 Charles Grover Brant v. State of Florida and Charles Grover Brant v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-06-30· cited 30×
• & SC16-224 Enoch D. Hall v. State of Florida & Enoch D. Hall v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-02-09· cited 29×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-10-17· cited 28×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-07-09· cited 26×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-11-18· cited 26×
• William James Deparvine v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-24· cited 21×
• & SC13-1959 Lucious Boyd v. State of Florida & Lucious Boyd v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-12-17· cited 14×
• Curry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-09· cited 13×
• & SC13-706 Lamar Z. Brooks v. State of Florida and Lamar Z. Brooks v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-05-07· cited 13×
• & SC13-1787 Steven Douglas Hayward v. State of Florida and Steven Douglas Hayward v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-06-25· cited 13×
• Jenkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-06· cited 11×
• Rodgers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-05-09· cited 6×
• Mark A. Twilegar v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-05-28· cited 3×
• Robert J. Bailey v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-08-28· cited 2×
• Thames v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-10-27· cited 2×

Cites

51 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×
• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Schriro v. Summerlin
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 2,419×
• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-03-31· cited 927×
• Richardson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-01· cited 913×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-08· cited 331×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Rutherford v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-12· cited 256×
• Maxwell v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-05-15· cited 248×
• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-08· cited 228×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-13· cited 204×
• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Guzman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-11-20· cited 147×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 139×