Evans v. Thompson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding claims “relate back” to the petition only if they “arose out of the same conduct, transaction, or occurrence”
• rejecting ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim premised on failure to call ballistics expert because none of proposed expert testimony would have significantly challenged State's version of events
• rejecting ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim premised on failure to call ballistics expert because none of proposed expert testimony would have significantly challenged State’s version of events
• admission of evidence in state-court criminal trial is determined by state evidentiary law and does not provide a basis for habeas relief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Evans v. Thompson
  First Circuit· 2008-02-08· cited 59×
• In Re Russo
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-02-26· cited 24×
• Cavitt v. Saba
  D. Massachusetts· 2014-10-31· cited 7×
• Logan v. Gelb
  D. Massachusetts· 2014-09-25· cited 5×
• Hyatt v. Gelb
  D. Massachusetts· 2015-10-30· cited 4×
• Junta v. Thompson
  D. Massachusetts· 2009-08-25· cited 1×
• CIRIGNANO v. Roden
  D. Massachusetts· 2010-02-17
• Derrick Wash. v. Spencer
  District of Columbia· 2018-04-30

Cites

82 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• United States v. Booker
  Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 23,210×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Blakely v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 13,994×
• Estelle v. McGuire
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-04· cited 8,719×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Rose v. Lundy
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-08· cited 5,808×
• Picard v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,124×
• Townsend v. Sain
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 4,485×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• Lockyer v. Andrade
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-05· cited 4,077×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• McCleskey v. Zant
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-16· cited 3,331×