State v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, when an attorney has made a tactical choice, the defendant must show that the tactic itself was unreasonable — that is, that no reasonably competent attorney would have adopted the tactic under the circumstances
• explaining that Alaska’s prejudice prong of the ineffective assistance of counsel standard is “significantly less demanding” than the federal standard
• noting that for a defendant to rebut the presumption of their attorney’s competence, the defendant “must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action ‘might be considered sound trial strategy’” (emphasis added
• requiring a petitioner's presence at an evidentiary hearing when \the disputed issues involve facts within the [petitioner's] personal knowledge\
• requiring a petitioner’s presence at an evidentiary hearing when “the disputed issues involve facts within the [petitioner’s] personal knowledge”
• discussing motions for judgment on the pleadings and for summary judgment in cases filed under Criminal Rule 35.1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• David S. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2012-01-20· cited 83×
• Grinols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2000-10-13· cited 46×
• Chloe O. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-09-20· cited 44×
• State v. Mouser
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-02-15· cited 28×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-07-23· cited 27×
• Massey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-03-17· cited 25×
• Steffensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-08-28· cited 20×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2001-02-09· cited 20×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-04-07· cited 17×
• Jerrel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-05-14· cited 16×
• Sharp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-07-17· cited 15×
• Tazruk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2003-04-11· cited 14×
• LaBrake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2007-02-02· cited 13×
• Newby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-11-13· cited 12×
• State v. Murtagh
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-10-26· cited 12×
• Gyles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-08-18· cited 11×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-04-21· cited 11×
• Rantala v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-09-18· cited 11×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-08-21· cited 10×
• Hyde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-09-28· cited 10×

Cites

44 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×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Engle v. Isaac
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 3,714×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• People v. Pope
  California Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 966×
• Millard Robert Beasley v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1974-02-01· cited 536×
• United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr., (Decoster Iii)
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-07-10· cited 324×
• Risher v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-06-17· cited 148×
• Dorman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-01-23· cited 135×
• United States ex rel. Cross v. DeRobertis
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-01-28· cited 95×
• Coleman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-10-10· cited 71×
• Barry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-02-03· cited 60×
• McCracken v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-04-08· cited 48×
• Campbell v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1986-11-21· cited 48×
• Drapeau v. State
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1982-09-13· cited 47×
• Amidon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-06-02· cited 47×
• Brown v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-10-12· cited 44×