State v. Goswick

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no IAC if counsel’s decision had a reasoned basis and was not the result of “ineptitude, inexperience or lack of preparation”
• considering, for example, that “[t]here are a number of reasons why an attorney may choose not to call a witness”
• “There are a number of reasons why an attorney may choose not to call a witness, including a concern that the witness may perjure himself or that his participation in the defense may harm the defendant more than his testimony . . . will aid him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Arizona v. Darrel Peter Pandeli
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2017-05-15· cited 113×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-07-29· cited 85×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-11-12· cited 72×
• State v. Gerlaugh
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-04-23· cited 71×
• State of Arizona v. Ronald Bruce Bigger
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2021-08-16· cited 63×
• State v. Reffitt
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-07-10· cited 44×
• State v. Barger
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1990-10-25· cited 42×
• State of Arizona v. Vaughn Miles Denz
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-07-23· cited 39×
• State v. Perkins
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-05-02· cited 32×
• State v. Smith
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-07-14· cited 30×
• State of Arizona v. Knute Eckhard Kolmann
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2016-03-16· cited 29×
• State v. West
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-05-21· cited 18×
• State v. Williams
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-04-24· cited 13×
• State of Arizona v. Phillip Gregory Speers
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2015-11-02· cited 8×
• State v. Royer
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-04-08· cited 2×
• State v. Pacheco
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-07-24
• State v. Sanchez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1995-03-21
• State v. Varela
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2018-07-12
• In Re Delinquency of G.G.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-12-31

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• State v. Tison
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-07-09· cited 168×
• International Rectifier Corp. v. Cohen
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 139×
• State v. Lee
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-25· cited 138×
• State v. Mincey
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-04-04· cited 87×
• State v. McNair
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-05· cited 82×
• State v. Watson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-10-18· cited 77×
• State v. Garcia
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-06-18· cited 38×
• State v. Morales
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1978-10-30· cited 31×
• State v. Workman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1979-07-20· cited 9×