Leonard Taylor v. Troy Steele

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that habeas petitioner could not show deficient performance where counsel followed petitioner’s express direction not to present closing argument during the penalty phase of a capital murder trial
• explaining that matters of legal strategy are generally left to counsel, although a client may have the right to expressly prohibit certain strategies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Brian Dorsey v. David Vandergriff
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-04-07· cited 23×

Cites

24 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×
• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Martinez v. Ryan
  Supreme Court· 2012-03-20· cited 4,115×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Roe v. Flores-Ortega
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 2,810×
• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×
• Taylor v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-28· cited 1,952×
• Florida v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-13· cited 963×
• Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-24· cited 840×
• McCoy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2018-05-14· cited 738×
• Weaver v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2017-06-22· cited 717×
• Cooke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-21· cited 132×
• United States v. Kenneth Joseph Masat
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-02-28· cited 70×
• United States v. Dennis Wellington
  Second Circuit· 2005-08-03· cited 53×
• Ronald Wayne Frye v. R. C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-12-22· cited 51×
• Joseph Mulligan v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-09-04· cited 48×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2007-11-20· cited 33×
• Jerry Franklin v. Josh Hawley
  Eighth Circuit· 2018-01-05· cited 31×