Hart v. Gomez

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 failure to review key documents corroborating a defense witness’s testimony constituted deficient performance
• holding that counsel’s failure to review key documents corroborating defense wit- ness’s testimony constituted deficient performance
• ineffectiveness portion of Strickland test satisfied where “no reasonable strategy. . . could account for defense counsel’s failure to introduce this [readily available] corroborating evidence”
• counsel’s failure to introduce documents that corroborated testimony crucial to the defense amounted to deficient performance
• “Hart’s counsel ‘failed to fulfill his duty to investigate [Hart’s] most important defense.’” (alteration in original) (quoting Sanders v. Ratelle, 21 F.3d 1446, 1457 (9th Cir. 1994))
• “A lawyer who fails adequately to investigate, and to introduce into evidence, records that demonstrate his client’s factual innocence, or that raise sufficient doubt as to that question to undermine confidence in the verdict, renders deficient performance.”

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Cited by

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

• George Lindstadt v. John P. Keane, Superintendent
  Second Circuit· 2001-01-04· cited 288×
• Jesus Avila v. George M. Galaza, Warden Attorney General of the State of California
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-07-22· cited 207×
• Kenneth G. Pavel v. Melvin L. Hollins, Superintendent, Oneida Correctional Facility Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of New York State
  Second Circuit· 2001-07-25· cited 166×
• Aaron Reynoso v. George J. Giurbino, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-09-06· cited 158×
• Andre Marcus Bragg v. Warden Galaza
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-06-12· cited 147×
• Murden v. Artuz
  Second Circuit· 2007-08-10· cited 142×
• Brian Keith Lord,petitioner-Appellee v. Tana Wood, Superintendent, Brian Keith Lord v. Tana Wood, Superintendent
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-07-14· cited 122×
• State v. Hargrove
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2013-02-01· cited 90×
• Johnny Lee Riley, Jr. v. Alice Payne
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-12-23· cited 89×
• Richter v. Hickman
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-08-10· cited 72×
• People v. Edward S.
  California Court of Appeal· 2009-04-27· cited 41×
• Howard v. Clark
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-06-15· cited 37×
• State v. Statler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-03-15· cited 23×
• State v. Larson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-03-15· cited 18×
• State v. Crapp
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-02· cited 18×
• Betschart v. Washington County Circuit Court Judges
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-05-31· cited 18×
• State v. Gassman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-03-15· cited 12×
• Matthews v. Abramajtys
  E.D. Michigan· 2000-04-11· cited 10×
• Green v. Lee
  E.D. New York· 2013-08-12· cited 9×
• Ahmad Issa v. Margaret Bradshaw
  Sixth Circuit· 2018-09-21· cited 6×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Sheldon Sanders v. John Ratelle, Warden Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General of the State of California
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-04-04· cited 370×
• United States v. Kenneth Joe Whitten, John Elmer Gaiefsky, Jack Wayne Gish, Richard Lawrence Shimel
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-05-25· cited 293×
• Smith v. Stewart
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-04-07· cited 128×
• Clabourne v. Lewis
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-09-08· cited 125×
• Larry Eugene Evans v. Samuel Lewis Lloyd Bramlett
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-08-22· cited 116×
• George Eggleston v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-08-28· cited 106×
• United States v. Raymond W. Burrows, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-04-18· cited 102×
• Michael Emerson CORRELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Terry L. STEWART, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-03-09· cited 102×
• United States v. Gregory Lewis Harden, Aka: Clarence Decker
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-05-19· cited 64×
• Ronnie Earl BAYLOR, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Wayne ESTELLE, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellants
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-09-04· cited 48×
• PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY OF GUAM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Benjamin SHYMANOVITZ, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-10-14· cited 46×
• United States v. Jose Ernesto Rodriguez, United States of America v. Octavio Leal-Cuen
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-11-17· cited 35×
• Hart v. Gomez
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-06-15· cited 1×

Other cases named Hart v. Gomez

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Hart v. Gomez
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-06-15· cited 1×