Smith v. Cockrell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Rule 56 “applies only to the extent that it does not conflict with the habeas rules”
• holding the failure to investigate, develop, and present mitigating evidence is not ineffective per se
• holding even when a claim is unexhausted and procedurally defaulted, the federal courts may deny the claim on the merits
• applying Strickland to ineffective assistance claim involving penalty phase of capital murder trial
• holding unexhausted claims were procedurally -20- barred
• holding unexhausted claims were procedurally barred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tennard v. Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 1,965×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2004-10-19· cited 820×
• Carl Blue v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-12-22· cited 110×
• Cotton v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-08-22· cited 93×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-11-23· cited 89×
• Max Alexander Soffar v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-21· cited 81×
• Robertson v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-14· cited 67×
• Bell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-20· cited 64×
• Murphy v. Davis
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-08-24· cited 60×
• Robitaille v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-11-23· cited 47×
• Burgess v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-11-23· cited 42×
• Adkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-03-26· cited 32×
• McWhorter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-09-30· cited 29×
• Juan Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-07-28· cited 28×
• United States v. Orlando Cordia Hall
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-07-05· cited 25×
• Skinner v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-05-14· cited 24×
• Brewer v. Dretke
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-03-01· cited 20×
• United States v. Ridgeway
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-02-06· cited 19×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 19×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-08· cited 15×

Cites

53 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×
• Slack v. McDaniel
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-26· cited 41,291×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Harris v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 3,033×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Penry v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-04· cited 946×
• Johnson v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1993-08-09· cited 750×
• Alexander v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-05-10· cited 543×
• Jonathan Wayne Nobles v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-10-28· cited 397×
• Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-10-16· cited 319×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Green v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-06-30· cited 234×
• Clark v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-01-28· cited 219×
• Moore v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-10-27· cited 191×
• Fisher v. State of Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-22· cited 181×

Other cases named Smith v. Cockrell

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Smith v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2001-10-01