Floyd 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 decision not to pursue a defense, which upon investigation appears fruitless, was reasonable and did not render his performance deficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Duren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-08-24· cited 133×
• Arthur v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 110×
• Holladay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-12-30· cited 78×
• James Willie Cochran v. Tommy Herring, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-01-10· cited 72×
• Lawhorn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-03-26· cited 62×
• Lawhorn v. Allen
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-03-11· cited 50×
• Ex Parte Floyd
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-05-11· cited 28×
• Harvey L. Windsor v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-08-07· cited 13×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-01-19· cited 9×
• Morrison v. Jones
  M.D. Alabama· 1996-07-26· cited 8×
• Tedder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-07-26· cited 8×
• Whited v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2015-02-06· cited 4×
• Whited v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-03-14· cited 2×
• Drayton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-05-05· cited 1×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-12-29

Cites

48 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×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• Wainwright v. Sykes
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 6,068×
• Engle v. Isaac
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 3,714×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• Reed v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 1,249×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• Street v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-21· cited 632×
• Allen v. Hardy
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 521×
• Ex Parte Jackson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-02-20· cited 233×
• Ex Parte Kyzer
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-03-06· cited 217×
• William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-07-20· cited 215×
• Joseph James Blake v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-05-13· cited 191×
• Michael Lindsey v. Fred Smith, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, J.D. White, Warden Holman Unit
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-06-12· cited 125×