Theriot v. Whitley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the petitioner “can succeed in 26 establishing that he was prejudiced by his attorney’s failure to investigate [petitioner’s competence] only if he can demonstrate by a reasonable probability that he was 27 incompetent to plead guilty.”
• finding no ineffective assistance when the record neither supports nor refutes that counsel was aware of the defendant’s suicide attempt in jail
• petitioner’s signature on guilty plea documents is prima facie evidence of the validity of the plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. McKnight
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-06-05· cited 143×
• Butcher v. Wendt
  Second Circuit· 2020-09-22· cited 93×
• Wayne East v. Wayne Scott, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-06-09· cited 85×
• Kenneth Ray Ransom v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-10-28· cited 65×
• Wilcoxson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-10-18· cited 35×
• State v. Castaneda
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1995-06-23· cited 21×
• Jimmie L. Weekley v. Jimmie Jones
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-06-01· cited 10×
• Dodge v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2020-05-07· cited 10×
• Adanandus v. Johnson
  W.D. Texas· 1996-09-19· cited 7×
• Mullis v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-08-26· cited 6×
• Mullis v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-06-19· cited 6×
• Flores v. Johnson
  W.D. Texas· 1997-03-31· cited 5×
• Rupert v. Johnson
  W.D. Texas· 1999-07-08· cited 1×
• East v. Scott
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-04-13
• Ransom v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-10-21
• Johnson, Dietrick Lewis Sr.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-24
• Johnson, Dietrick Lewis Sr.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-11-06

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• Townsend v. Sain
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 4,485×
• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Henderson v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 1,382×
• United States v. Timmreck
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 1,059×
• Smith v. O'GRADY
  Supreme Court· 1941-02-17· cited 586×
• Terry Allen Bouchillon v. James A. Collins, Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-08-07· cited 181×
• Robert v. Bruce v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-09-06· cited 126×
• Joe Pedrero v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Dept. Of Offender Rehabilitation, State of Florida
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-03-12· cited 67×
• William Johnson, Jr. v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-05-06· cited 49×
• Jesse Bonvillain v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-01-22· cited 49×
• Ernest Lee Grissom v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, State of Florida
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-05-20· cited 17×
• Abram J. Jordan v. Louis L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-03-27· cited 15×