Ford 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’s rejection of an alibi charge when the defendant claims that he was in another place at the time of the commission of the criminal act constitutes deficient representation under an objective standard of reasonableness
• holding respondent failed to prove prejudice from trial counsel’s fail ure to request an alibi charge where there was overwhelming evidence of guilt
• failure to seek alibi charge not prejudicial in light of overwhelming evidence of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smalls v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-02-07· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-17· cited 30×
• Skakel v. Comm'r of Corr.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-05-04· cited 27×
• Roseboro v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-01-23· cited 18×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-05-15· cited 17×
• Maurice Hope v. Warden Cartledge
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-05-22· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-07-21· cited 12×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-03-10· cited 6×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. Ford
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-05-07· cited 74×
• Geter v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-08-12· cited 11×
• Riddle v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-05-26· cited 6×