Rockwood 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 counsel's decision not to cross-examine victim because \did not want to antagonize the jury\ was sound trial strategy
• holding that counsel’s decision not to cross-examine victim because “did not want to antagonize the jury” was sound trial strategy
• concluding that counsel's failure to cross examine the complainant, among other things, was not ineffective assistance
• concluding that counsel's failure to cross examine the complainant, among other things, was not ineffective assistance

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Cited by

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

• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 3,060×
• Ex Parte Ewing
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-09-20· cited 151×
• Ransonette v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 143×
• Benoit v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-25· cited 123×
• Ewing v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-04-06· cited 117×
• Bullard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 106×
• Dockery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-20· cited 77×
• Ex Parte Davila
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-17· cited 39×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-17· cited 34×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-14· cited 31×
• Carr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-09· cited 16×
• Maya v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-06-27· cited 16×
• De Leon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1983-07-06· cited 14×
• Hill v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-03-01· cited 13×
• West v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-04-25· cited 10×
• Reseburg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-31· cited 6×
• Casey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-23· cited 5×
• Peters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-10· cited 4×
• Williams v. Estelle
  N.D. Texas· 1976-07-09· cited 3×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-03· cited 1×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Curtis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-24· cited 19×

Other cases named Rockwood v. State

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Rockwood v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-09-25