Lockett v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant was prejudiced under Strickland based on counsel’s failure to investigate mitigating evidence relating to defendant’s mental condition
• holding that the failure to conduct a minimal investigation of a defendant’s possible mitigation evidence renders counsel’s performance deficient
• stating that Strickland \demands more than the mere deci- sion of a strategic choice by counsel. It requires informed strategic choices.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• Strickland requires deference to counsel’s “informed strategic choices”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 149×
• United States v. Fuchs
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-11-16· cited 147×
• Lookingbill v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-03· cited 131×
• Branch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 121×
• Shannon v. Koehler
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-08-17· cited 111×
• Max Alexander Soffar v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-21· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 80×
• State v. DiFrisco
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-08-14· cited 71×
• Woodward v. Epps
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-08-21· cited 69×
• John Floyd v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-06-25· cited 59×
• Johnson v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-09-17· cited 58×
• Timothy Lanier Allen v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-04-28· cited 56×
• Hutto v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-05-11· cited 40×
• United States v. Felix Brizuela, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2020-06-19· cited 39×
• Simmons v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-11-12· cited 33×
• Martinez v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-03-08· cited 17×
• Riley v. Dretke
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-03-05· cited 11×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-05-03· cited 9×
• Ford v. Schofield
  N.D. Georgia· 2007-05-11· cited 5×

Cites

50 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×
• Foman v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1962-12-03· cited 17,205×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Castille v. Peoples
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 1,587×
• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• Ford v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1991-02-19· cited 789×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 461×
• Fisher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-10-16· cited 457×
• Lockett v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-09-30· cited 443×
• California v. Roy
  Supreme Court· 1996-11-04· cited 374×
• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• David A. Mapes, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Ralph Coyle, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-04-30· cited 304×
• Gallop v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-20· cited 245×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-11-26· cited 244×
• United States v. John O. Green A/K/A John O. Hornung
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-10-11· cited 242×