State v. Leyba

How courts have described this case

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

• Counsel’s trial strategy of seeking absolute acquittal ultimately was not successful, but it did not constitute deficient performance.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Whitlow v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 2008-04-22· cited 288×
• State v. White
  Montana Supreme Court· 2001-08-09· cited 93×
• State v. Castle
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-11-12· cited 42×
• Christian v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  Montana Supreme Court· 2015-09-01· cited 26×
• State v. Gonzales
  Montana Supreme Court· 1996-10-24· cited 18×
• State v. Gunderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-04-08· cited 11×
• Demontiney v. Montana Twelfth Judicial District Court
  Montana Supreme Court· 2002-07-18· cited 10×
• State v. Robison
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-01-09· cited 7×
• Taylor v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 2014-06-03· cited 7×
• State v. Fuqua
  Montana Supreme Court· 2000-10-29· cited 6×
• State v. Lane
  Montana Supreme Court· 1996-11-14· cited 5×
• State v. Neary
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 1×
• Demontiney v. MT. TWELFTH JUD. DIST. COURT
  Montana Supreme Court· 2002-07-18· cited 1×
• State v. Hall
  Montana Supreme Court· 1996-12-10
• State v. Arvidson
  Montana Supreme Court· 2025-09-09

Cites

23 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×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• Howard L. Bashor v. Henry Risley, Warden of Montana State Prison and Michael Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-02-07· cited 379×
• State v. Arlington
  Montana Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 115×
• Bashor v. Risley
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 110×
• State v. Coleman
  Montana Supreme Court· 1978-04-25· cited 82×
• State v. Brandon
  Montana Supreme Court· 1994-03-22· cited 38×
• State v. Sigler
  Montana Supreme Court· 1984-06-04· cited 37×
• State v. Johnson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1993-03-02· cited 33×
• State v. Sheppard
  Montana Supreme Court· 1995-02-23· cited 33×
• State v. Lundblade
  Montana Supreme Court· 1981-03-23· cited 30×
• State v. Lundrlade
  Montana Supreme Court· 1981-03-24· cited 29×
• State v. Weinberger
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-06-06· cited 27×
• State v. Sheppard
  Montana Supreme Court· 1992-05-01· cited 27×
• State v. Paulson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 26×
• State v. Sharbono
  Montana Supreme Court· 1977-03-30· cited 24×
• State v. Senn
  Montana Supreme Court· 1990-07-19· cited 23×
• State v. Long
  Montana Supreme Court· 1995-12-05· cited 16×
• State v. Cyr
  Montana Supreme Court· 1987-12-03· cited 15×