Foster v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)
• \[P]ost-conviction relief is very limited and deals with only those issues undetectable at trial or the appellate level.\
• \[O]ther issues which were either presented through direct appeal or could have been presented on direct appeal or at trial are procedurally barred and cannot be relitigated under the guise of poor representation by counsel.\
• decision not to investigate potentially mitigating psychological factors was reasonable and strategic because a preliminary competency hearing found that defendant had no psychotic disorder or organic mental disorder
• failure to object when there has been no error does not constitute ineffective assistance
• \[O]ther issues which were either presented through direct appeal or could have been presented on direct appeal or at trial are procedurally barred and cannot be relitigated under the guise of poor representation by counsel.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ross v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-26· cited 361×
• Byrom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 320×
• Underwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-02-12· cited 282×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 266×
• Crawford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 197×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 192×
• Lynch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 153×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-02· cited 152×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-08-09· cited 125×
• Scott v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-06-10· cited 125×
• Hannah v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-10-19· cited 121×
• Branch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 121×
• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 106×
• Holly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 100×
• Russell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-06-19· cited 99×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-07-01· cited 87×
• Loden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-10-04· cited 84×
• Sewell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 76×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-20· cited 64×

Cites

59 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×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Lowenfield v. Phelps
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-07· cited 1,385×
• Stringer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-08-15· cited 648×
• Thompson v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-29· cited 617×
• Hansen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 521×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-04-28· cited 467×
• Chase v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-02-24· cited 466×
• Stanford v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 438×
• Conner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-03-17· cited 409×
• Carr v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-02-02· cited 403×
• Johnson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-09-25· cited 401×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 393×
• MacK v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-12-21· cited 383×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Ladner v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-17· cited 343×
• Jenkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-10· cited 339×