Terry L. Harris v. Eugene McAdory Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a pro se habeas petitioner’s borderline mental disability and alleged organic brain dysfunction did not qualify as cause to excuse his procedural default
• holding that low IQ score and limited reading ability are not external factors
• finding that such a condition was not suffi- ciently external to the petitioner to support cause for default
• “Something that comes from a source within the petitioner is unlikely to qualify as an external impediment.”
• finding that a petitioner's pro se status does not constitute adequate ground for cause
• instructing that prisoner’s ignorance of the law is not cause to excuse default

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. McKee
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-03-16· cited 128×
• Cedell Davis v. Gregory Lambert, Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-11-04· cited 81×
• Robert Bintz v. Daniel Bertrand
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-04-07· cited 70×
• State v. Ryan
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2017-06-22· cited 56×
• Robert Simpson v. Deirdre Battaglia, Warden, 1
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-08-11· cited 54×
• Keith B. Canaan v. Daniel R. McBride Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-03-11· cited 50×
• Saunders v. Commissioner of Correction
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-04-19· cited 17×
• Duncan v. Hathaway
  N.D. Illinois· 2010-08-11· cited 11×
• Corcoran v. Buss
  N.D. Indiana· 2007-04-09· cited 8×
• Morgan v. Chandler
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-03-11· cited 4×
• Tyler v. McCaughtry
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2003-11-12· cited 3×
• Saunders v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-11-26· cited 3×
• Andrashko v. Borgen
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-01-13· cited 3×
• Harris v. McAdory Warden
  Supreme Court· 2004-04-19
• BUCARAM v. Chandler
  N.D. Illinois· 2007-05-30
• Daniel Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-03-02
• Davis, Cedell v. Lambert, Gregory
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-11-04
• Canaan, Keith B. v. McBride, Daniel R.
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-01-11
• Bintz, Robert v. Bertrand, Daniel
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-04-07
• Simpson, Robert v. Battaglia, Deirdre
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-08-11

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 1,620×
• Martize R. Dellinger v. Edward R. Bowen, Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-10-04· cited 135×
• Michael Ponce Tacho v. Joe Martinez
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-12-08· cited 116×
• Lavelle Chambers v. Gary R. McCaughtry Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-09-05· cited 94×
• Herbert H. Dellenbach v. Craig A. Hanks
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-02-07· cited 68×
• Alvoil Cawley v. George E. Detella and Jim Ryan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-12-07· cited 64×
• People v. Harris
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-12-07· cited 59×
• James Barksdale v. Michael P. Lane
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-04-28· cited 57×
• Larry Gene Hull v. Robert M. Freeman, Ernest D. Preate, Jr., Attorney General
  Third Circuit· 1993-04-19· cited 57×
• Chester Cornman v. Bill Armontrout, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, William L. Webster, Attorney General of the State of Missouri
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-03-24· cited 56×
• Leland W. Henderson v. Edward Cohn
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-12-11· cited 55×