Fisher 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 counsel cannot be held ineffective for failing to anticipate or effectuate a change in existing law
• holding that the post-conviction court is the sole judge of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of witnesses
• holding that an issue was both significant and obvious, as well as stronger than the other issues raised by appellate counsel on direct appeal, “precisely because the law in this area was unsettled and in a state of flux”
• providing that the post-conviction court is the sole judge of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses
• providing that the post-conviction court is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses
• stating the post-conviction court is the sole judge of witness credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Henley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-02-27· cited 290×
• Reed v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-11-15· cited 249×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-21· cited 218×
• Curtis A. Bethea v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2013-03-12· cited 189×
• Juan M. Garrett v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2013-08-28· cited 179×
• Hall v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-06-20· cited 162×
• Kubsch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2010-10-05· cited 138×
• Ritchie v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-11-08· cited 121×
• Overstreet v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-11-27· cited 112×
• Anthony Hollowell v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2014-10-30· cited 91×
• Hampton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-02-14· cited 80×
• Wrinkles v. Buss
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-08-12· cited 80×
• Wayne A. Campbell v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2014-10-30· cited 66×
• Freddie L. McKnight, III v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-12-31· cited 63×
• Moshenek v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-06-20· cited 57×
• Bunch v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-21· cited 50×
• Brad W. Passwater v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2013-06-28· cited 49×
• Massey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-10-19· cited 47×
• Walker v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-02-28· cited 34×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-07-09· cited 34×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Timberlake v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-08-20· cited 787×
• David A. Gray v. James Greer
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-09-25· cited 430×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-17· cited 328×
• Bieghler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 316×
• Woods v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-11-23· cited 285×
• Ben-Yisrayl v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-11-08· cited 230×
• Lawrence v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-05-03· cited 119×
• Trueblood v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-09· cited 67×
• Saylor v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-03-20· cited 61×
• Sills v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 55×
• Riley v. Emery Worldwide Airlines
  Supreme Court· 2002-10-07· cited 46×
• Lynch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-05-17· cited 43×
• Jerome Pelmer, A/K/A Jerry Jones v. J.D. White, Warden, and Don Siegelman, the Attorney General of the State of Alabama
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-07-24· cited 37×
• Davenport v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 34×
• Compton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-07-16· cited 23×
• Aschliman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-04-14· cited 23×
• Nordstrom v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-02-09· cited 21×
• Fisher v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-03-24· cited 1×