Sexton 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 conflicting and somewhat incorrect advice given to a defendant by trial counsel during plea proceedings does not necessarily -5- constitute ineffective assistance of counsel
• stating that the post-conviction court could have allowed the petitioner to verify the comprehensive petition prior to the evidentiary hearing when the previous pleadings had been verified
• holding these “circumstances justify the petitioner’s claims being heard on the merits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Crowe
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-08-16· cited 153×
• Rigger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-09-10· cited 24×
• Matthew W. Wambles v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-27
• Christy D. Naillon v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-24
• Aubrey Tremaine Eisom v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-24
• Charles Nash v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-09-20
• Vario Talley v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-07-30
• Michael L. McMahan v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-07-17
• Oscar Thomas v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-28
• Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-27
• Mario Green v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-26
• Jeffrey Booth v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-29
• Titus Miller v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-07
• Larry Scott Reynolds v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-05-01
• Quincy Deangelo Gardner v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-04-11
• Elgene Porter v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-03-26
• Tirrone Akilla Simpkins v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-02-28
• Shundell Lynn Dickerson v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-02-27
• Otis Maclin v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-02-22
• Brandon Neal v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-01-30

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• Baxter v. Rose
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1975-05-19· cited 3,828×
• McCarthy v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-02· cited 3,200×
• Fields v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-02-20· cited 3,045×
• Hellard v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-03-08· cited 1,516×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 868×
• Blankenship v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-07-06· cited 796×
• Millard Robert Beasley v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1974-02-01· cited 536×
• United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-12-27· cited 525×
• Powers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1996-09-30· cited 267×
• Bankston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1991-03-13· cited 172×
• Farris v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-03-30· cited 112×
• Fontaine v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-12-08· cited 69×
• State v. Lord
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-11-02· cited 23×