Robertson v. Hanks

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that there is no procedural default if a state court makes a decision on the merits
• instructing that appellate counsel is not ineffective for failing to raise a meritless issue on appeal
• “[petitioner] does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence which the jury found established beyond a reasonable doubt his guilt for dealing cocaine.”
• no fundamental miscarriage of justice when police informant testified “that on the three occasions charged she observed [petitioner] deliver to the police officer what appeared to her to be cocaine and witnessed the officer pay [petitioner] for the contraband”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Michael Charlton v. Cecil Davis, Superintendent of the Indiana State Prison
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-28· cited 123×
• Johnson v. Thurmer
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-10-18· cited 76×
• Brian Jones v. Kim Butler
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-02-03· cited 34×
• Lopez v. Thurmer
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-02-05· cited 19×
• Bonilla v. Lee
  S.D. New York· 2014-08-09· cited 16×
• Bowles v. Berge
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1998-03-31· cited 4×
• United States ex rel. Parish v. Hodge
  N.D. Illinois· 2014-09-12· cited 4×
• MacIel v. Carter
  N.D. Illinois· 1998-10-09· cited 3×
• United States Ex Rel. McDonald v. Page
  N.D. Illinois· 2000-07-19· cited 3×
• Leary v. Garraghty
  E.D. Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 1×
• Laugharn v. Scott
  C.D. Illinois· 2001-05-15
• Calloway v. Bartley
  N.D. Illinois· 2006-12-15
• United States Ex Rel. Hinton v. Snyder
  N.D. Illinois· 2002-05-22
• United States Ex Rel. Gecht v. Pierce
  N.D. Illinois· 2006-09-19
• Charlton, Michael v. Davis, Cecil
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-28
• Julian Lopez v. Michael Thurmer
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-02-05
• United States v. Woodson
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-11-20

Cites

34 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×
• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Wainwright v. Sykes
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 6,068×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• Harris v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 3,033×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• Howard L. Bashor v. Henry Risley, Warden of Montana State Prison and Michael Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-02-07· cited 379×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-17· cited 328×
• Johnny Ray Bagby v. Dewey Sowders, Warden, Northpoint Training Center
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-01-17· cited 229×
• Robert TURNER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charles D. MARSHALL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-08-02· cited 184×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-08-19· cited 87×
• Robert Lee Williams v. Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, and Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-09-03· cited 82×
• Tommy L. Bobo v. Darrell A. Kolb, Superintendent, Waupun Correctional Facility
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-07-22· cited 76×
• Earl Deberry v. Charles Wolff, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-04-11· cited 68×
• Ronald Rogers-Bey v. Michael P. Lane
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-02-23· cited 68×
• Strenten Vujosevic v. John R. Rafferty, Superintendent of Rahway State Prison, and W. Carey Edwards, Attorney General of New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1988-04-18· cited 64×