In Re Spears

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “petitioner has adequately explained his delay as attributable to his lack of capacity to represent himself . . . and the scarcity of chan- nels through which legal assistance is available to indigent prisoners”
• noting that although an insufficiency of the evidence claim is not a cognizable habeas claim, ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for failure to raise sufficiency of the evidence is a cognizable habeas claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In Re Harris
  California Supreme Court· 1993-07-29· cited 411×
• In re Reno
  California Supreme Court· 2012-08-30· cited 330×
• Dearcey Stewart v. Matthew Cate
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-05-01· cited 78×
• People v. Gulbrandsen
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-05-02· cited 49×
• In Re Moss
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-12-18· cited 39×
• Jerry Carter v. G.J. Giurbino, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-10-05· cited 25×
• People v. Valenzuela
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-12-03· cited 23×
• People v. Jackson
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-10-22· cited 23×
• People v. Miller
  California Court of Appeal· 1992-05-15· cited 17×
• People v. Gutierrez
  California Court of Appeal· 1991-03-01· cited 12×
• In Re Acker
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-07-30· cited 8×
• Dearcey Stewart v. Matthew Cate
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-11-01· cited 5×
• Tyrone Miles v. Michael Martel
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-09-28
• In re Reno
  California Supreme Court· 2012-10-31
• Chaffer v. Prosper
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-09-08
• In re Hampton
  California Court of Appeal· 2020-04-30
• Lovelace v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2025-02-14

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Wende
  California Supreme Court· 1979-10-12· cited 8,674×
• Douglas v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 3,330×
• Ross v. Moffitt
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-17· cited 1,488×
• People v. Feggans
  California Supreme Court· 1967-10-03· cited 246×
• In Re Waltreus
  California Supreme Court· 1965-01-15· cited 198×
• People v. Johnson
  California Court of Appeal· 1981-08-27· cited 181×
• In Re Saunders
  California Supreme Court· 1970-08-07· cited 160×
• In Re Lindley
  California Supreme Court· 1947-02-18· cited 158×
• In Re Smith
  California Supreme Court· 1970-07-09· cited 108×
• In Re Adams
  California Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 107×
• In Re Coughlin
  California Supreme Court· 1976-02-04· cited 95×
• People v. Rhoden
  California Supreme Court· 1972-01-25· cited 76×
• People v. Anjell
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-12-20· cited 76×
• In Re Winchester
  California Supreme Court· 1960-01-29· cited 67×
• In Re Terry
  California Supreme Court· 1971-05-24· cited 52×
• People v. Masten
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-11-22· cited 52×
• People v. Edwards
  California Court of Appeal· 1981-03-27· cited 47×
• People v. Walker
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-08-08· cited 44×
• People v. Barton
  California Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 33×
• People v. Simpson
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-03-23· cited 33×

Other cases named In Re Spears

25 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• In Re Spears
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-09-26· cited 11×
• In re Spears
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2015-03-19· cited 9×
• In re Spears
  New York Supreme Court· 1895-07-26· cited 8×
• In Re Spears
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2006-06-19· cited 6×
• In Re Spears
  W.D. Michigan· 2004-04-26· cited 6×
• In Re Spears
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2002-06-14· cited 4×
• In Re Spears
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2011-09-02· cited 3×
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-02-04· cited 3×
• In Re Spears
  M.D. Florida· 1990-11-01· cited 2×
• In re Spears
  Customs and Patent Appeals· 1955-07-01· cited 2×
• In Re Spears
  Sixth Circuit· 1950-12-05· cited 1×
• In Re Spears
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-08-31· cited 1×
• In Re Spears
  W.D. Michigan· 2004-09-09· cited 1×
• In Re Spears
  W.D. New York· 2009-12-09· cited 1×
• In Re Spears
  N.D. Texas· 2006-03-22· cited 1×
• In Re Spears
  N.D. Texas· 2006-07-19· cited 1×
• In re Spears
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-06-29· cited 1×
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2004-10-01· cited 1×
• In re Spears
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2007-02-28
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court· 2011-04-25
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-07-14
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-11-21
• In re Spears
  E.D. Tennessee· 1985-05-19
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-03-04
• In re Spears
  Supreme Court· 2011-04-25