State v. Sanders

How courts have described this case

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

• The court “has come close to stating that an attorney’s failure to make an opening statement constitutes ineffectiveness per se.”
• defendant killed two children in an apartment he and his brother intended to burglarize
• husband killed estranged wife and new boyfriend
• husband killed estranged wife and new boyfriend

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Seals
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-11-25· cited 223×
• State v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-04-14· cited 201×
• State v. Juniors
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2005-11-29· cited 200×
• State v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-04-11· cited 159×
• State v. Manning
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2004-10-19· cited 159×
• State v. Hampton
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-06-15· cited 157×
• State v. Tart
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-05-01· cited 157×
• State v. Bridgewater
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2002-06-21· cited 155×
• State v. Blank
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-04-11· cited 154×
• State v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-07-02· cited 147×
• State v. Strickland
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-11-01· cited 146×
• State v. Wessinger
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-05-28· cited 121×
• State v. Robertson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-03-04· cited 107×
• State v. Sparks
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2011-05-11· cited 105×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1995-10-27· cited 103×
• State v. Craig
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1997-05-20· cited 94×
• State v. Penns
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-12-20· cited 94×
• State v. Broaden
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2001-02-21· cited 93×
• State v. Jacobs
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2011-05-24· cited 93×
• State v. Batiste
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2006-12-20· cited 87×

Cites

71 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Rhode Island v. Innis
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,571×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Lockhart v. Fretwell
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,956×
• Sullivan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 3,512×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• Cupp v. Naughten
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-04· cited 2,639×
• Boyde v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-23· cited 1,983×
• Michelson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,808×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• Wright v. West
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-19· cited 1,604×
• State v. Prieur
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1973-03-29· cited 910×
• Minnick v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-12-03· cited 848×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×