Holland 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 was under no obligation to do what would amount to a futile act\
• holding that trial counsel is under no duty to do what would amount to a futile act
• holding that “counsel was under no obligation to do what would amount to a futile act”
• holding allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel will be sustained only if they are firmly founded in the record
• stating that “[a]bsent a showing by appellant that he would have benefitted from the testimony, the decision not to call witnesses at either stage of trial does not raise the specter of ineffective assistance.”
• stating that “[a]bsent a showing by appellant that he would have benefitted from the testimony, the decision not to call witnesses at either stage of trial does not raise the specter of ineffective assistance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-03· cited 840×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 484×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-04-30· cited 439×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-27· cited 418×
• Matchett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 343×
• Luna v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-10-29· cited 267×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 245×
• Solis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-27· cited 221×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 216×
• Poole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-07-30· cited 196×
• Gosch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-18· cited 190×
• Ex Parte Battle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-16· cited 190×
• Sattiewhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-10-25· cited 187×
• Satterwhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 155×
• Woods v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-08· cited 117×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 111×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Ybarra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1995-04-05· cited 103×
• Ex Parte Tovar
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-21· cited 87×