Sakajust Scott v. Randall Hepp

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “there can be no Supreme Court precedent to be contradicted or unreasonably applied, and therefore no habeas relief, when there is no Supreme Court precedent on point”
• observing “that a failure to argue a point of unsettled law, not foreshadowed by existing case law, ‘is not enough by itself to demonstrate deficient performance.’”
• “failure to object to an issue that is not settled law within [the jurisdiction] is not unreasonable [representation] by defense counsel” (brackets and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• DeShawn Jewell v. Gary Boughton
  Seventh Circuit· 2024-01-22· cited 3×
• Otis Elion v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2025-09-24
• Maurice Holt v. Gary Boughton
  Seventh Circuit· 2026-03-30

Cites

28 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Knowles v. Mirzayance
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-24· cited 2,888×
• Roe v. Flores-Ortega
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 2,810×
• McNeil v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-13· cited 1,818×
• Brown v. Payton
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-22· cited 973×
• Bobby v. Dixon
  Supreme Court· 2011-11-07· cited 280×
• United States v. Michael Leroy Barnes, and Cheryl Barnes
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-05-20· cited 142×
• Virsnieks v. Smith
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-04-02· cited 132×
• James Lilly v. Jerry D. Gilmore, Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-03-17· cited 115×
• United States v. Fields
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-04-13· cited 83×
• Mark A. Campbell v. Judy P. Smith
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-10-20· cited 80×
• Jeffery Bridges v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-03-17· cited 72×
• Watketa Valenzuela v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-08-17· cited 59×
• David Resnick v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-08-03· cited 58×
• Christopher Harris v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-09-10· cited 55×
• David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-09-21· cited 38×

Other cases named Sakajust Scott v. Randall Hepp

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Sakajust Scott v. Randall Hepp
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-03-10