Taylor v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “failing to investigate because counsel does not think it will help … [is] ‘an abdication of advocacy’”
• “Failure to raise an issue that is without merit does not constitute constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel....” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Kiser
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2009-05-13· cited 158×
• Archuleta v. Galetka
  Utah Supreme Court· 2011-11-22· cited 116×
• State v. Houston
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-03-13· cited 94×
• State v. Ott
  Utah Supreme Court· 2010-01-05· cited 77×
• Honie v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2014-05-30· cited 76×
• State v. Reece
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-04-14· cited 69×
• State v. Lenkart
  Utah Supreme Court· 2011-05-17· cited 63×
• Lafferty v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2007-09-14· cited 51×
• Gardner v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2010-06-14· cited 49×
• State v. Griffin
  Utah Supreme Court· 2016-07-27· cited 43×
• Ross v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2012-12-21· cited 37×
• State v. Alzaga
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-05-29· cited 33×
• Kell v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2008-09-05· cited 32×
• State v. Addison
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-11-06· cited 32×
• State v. Balfour
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2008-11-14· cited 31×
• State v. Suhail
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2023-02-09· cited 31×
• Taylor v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2012-01-24· cited 30×
• Miller v. Utah Department of Transportation
  Utah Supreme Court· 2012-08-31· cited 27×
• State v. Powell
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2020-04-16· cited 24×
• State v. McClellan
  Utah Supreme Court· 2009-07-31· cited 21×