James 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 James's trial counsel were not ineffective for failing to pursue a claim of self-defense because 'counsel had no reason to believe that the shooting was in self-defense because James did not tell his attorneys that he acted in self- defense'
• \[T]he circuit court did not commit reversible error in denying James's … motion to proceed ex parte in his request for funds for expert assistance for his postconviction proceedings.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Albarran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 50×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-02-04· cited 34×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-04-27· cited 33×
• Broadnax v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-02-15· cited 32×
• McWhorter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-09-30· cited 29×
• Donald Dwayne Whatley v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-10-01· cited 29×
• Dominique Ray v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-02-04· cited 29×
• Joe Nathan James v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-04-28· cited 26×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-10-05· cited 25×
• Jarrod Taylor v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-10-01· cited 23×
• Shonelle Andre Jackson v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-11-13· cited 22×
• Boyle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-03-29· cited 22×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 19×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-08· cited 15×
• Yeomans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-03-29· cited 14×
• McMillan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-08-11· cited 10×
• Corey Schirod Smith v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-09-30· cited 7×
• Musgrove v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-11-02· cited 4×
• Acklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-12-15· cited 2×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-08-14

Cites

93 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×
• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Fay v. Noia
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 3,950×
• Pennsylvania v. Finley
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-18· cited 3,807×
• Engle v. Isaac
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 3,714×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Schriro v. Landrigan
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-14· cited 3,241×
• Michel v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1956-01-23· cited 2,788×
• Rompilla v. Beard
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-20· cited 1,891×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Affronti v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-12-05· cited 1,308×
• David Ronald Chandler v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-07-21· cited 1,022×
• Porter v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 2009-11-30· cited 915×
• Murray v. Giarratano
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-23· cited 547×
• State v. Steffen
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1994-09-28· cited 454×
• Jerry White v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-09-03· cited 412×
• Holladay v. Haley
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-04-19· cited 371×