Saffold 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 trial counsel was not required to make futile or frivolous motions
• failure to request an instruction on the lesser included offense of criminal negligence did not render counsel's performance ineffective

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ashley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-05-29· cited 22×
• Ex Parte Green
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2008-07-18· cited 17×
• Woodberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-07-09· cited 13×
• Cosby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-06-18· cited 11×
• Russo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-08-13· cited 7×
• Whitson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-08-24· cited 7×

Cites

31 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×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Evitts v. Lucey
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-18· cited 3,068×
• Baldwin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-17· cited 158×
• Ex Parte Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-07-13· cited 148×
• Alvord v. Wainwright
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-02-10· cited 137×
• Charles Sylvester Bell v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-02-28· cited 132×
• Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-08-12· cited 114×
• David Dene Martin v. Ross Maggio, Jr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-08-15· cited 92×
• Alvord v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-29· cited 67×
• Goodman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-05-27· cited 24×
• Ex Parte Goodman
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-08-29· cited 22×
• Trammell v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1964-06-25· cited 21×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-10-09· cited 20×
• Dill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-11-12· cited 20×
• Haynes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-11-13· cited 17×
• David Dene Martin v. Ross Maggio, Jr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-08-02· cited 16×
• Saffold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-02-25· cited 15×
• Marsden v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-07-06· cited 15×
• Bell v. Thigpen
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 15×