Teddy Sanchez v. Ron Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that Supreme Court cases addressing the Eighth Amendment’s proportionality principle do not require that defendants convicted of the same crime in the same case receive similar sentences
• finding no prejudice in part because the defendant “made incriminating statements . . . which were admitted in evidence against him”
• describing an APD diagnosis as a “basket of cobras” before a jury, being potentially more harmful than helpful during the penalty phase (quoting Gerlaugh v. Stewart, 129 F.3d 1027, 1035 (9th Cir. 1997))
• “There is no clearly established federal law requiring intra-case proportionality 9 review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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1 case in this archive cites this case.

• John Bejarano v. William Reubart
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-05-02· cited 6×

Cites

27 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Estelle v. McGuire
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-04· cited 8,719×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Cullen v. Pinholster
  Supreme Court· 2011-04-04· cited 5,931×
• Lockyer v. Andrade
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-05· cited 4,077×
• Smith v. Robbins
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 3,510×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Woodford v. Visciotti
  Supreme Court· 2002-11-04· cited 2,207×
• Pulley v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,080×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Wilson v. Sellers
  Supreme Court· 2018-04-17· cited 1,836×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• William George Bonin v. Arthur Calderon, as Warden of San Quentin State Prison James Rowland, Director of the California Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-06-28· cited 1,060×
• Milton v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 824×
• People v. Beeman
  California Supreme Court· 1984-02-06· cited 766×
• People v. Chiu
  California Supreme Court· 2014-06-02· cited 755×
• Thaddaeus Louis Turner v. Arthur Calderon, Warden, San Quentin State Prison Jeanne Woodford, Warden, as Warden of San Quentin State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-12· cited 427×
• Sheldon Sanders v. John Ratelle, Warden Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General of the State of California
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-04-04· cited 370×