Horton 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 trial counsel was deficient for advising the applicant not to testify when his advice was based upon an \unsubstantiated legal assumption\ and holding counsel had a duty to seek a ruling of admissibility from the trial judge either confirming or invalidating his assumption
• accused received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel informed him that he could be cross-examined about prior convictions that were not for impeachable offenses
• counsel performed deficiently in advising defendant inaccurately that, if he testified, he could be impeached with prior convictions that were inadmissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Calene v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1993-02-05· cited 45×
• State v. Mueller
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-07-17· cited 42×
• Gallman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-02-24· cited 28×
• State v. Joseph
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-08-18· cited 22×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-06-08· cited 20×
• Tilghman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-29· cited 16×
• State v. Sarvis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1994-10-24· cited 8×
• Legare v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 7×
• Savoy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-07-31· cited 5×
• Dietrich, Kyle Carpenter
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-12-29

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-08-27· cited 103×
• Wright v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 64×
• State v. Livingston
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-05-21· cited 34×
• High v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 22×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-02-25· cited 19×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1978-10-18· cited 13×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1988-01-11· cited 11×
• State v. Drakeford
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-11-03· cited 6×