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 it was reasonable trial strategy for counsel to have determined that sentencing by the court was preferred to sentencing by a jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Roberts v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2011-10-11· cited 13×
• Michael B. Casey v. State of Missouri
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2025-04-15

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Zink v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2009-02-24· cited 273×
• Worthington v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2005-05-31· cited 246×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2006-06-30· cited 195×
• Skillicorn v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-06-13· cited 51×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2004-11-23· cited 33×
• Williams v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-11-14· cited 24×
• Christeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2004-04-13· cited 23×
• Boyd v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-11-21· cited 19×
• Nguyen v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-02-21· cited 11×
• Stuart v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-09-10· cited 9×
• State v. Lawrence
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-04-03· cited 4×