United States v. Christopher Vialva

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “reasonable jurists could not disagree with the district court’s disposition of any of Bernard’s and Vialva’s claims,” including the court’s decision to deny an evidentiary hearing and further discovery
• finding that the district court's rejection of Bernard's and Vialva's ineffective assistance of counsel claims was \not reasonably debatable\
• finding that the district court’s rejection of Bernard’s and Vialva’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims was “not reasonably debatable”
• explaining that “[w]e need not address” what is “foreclosed by precedent”
• because decisions regarding cross-examination are strategic, they usually will not support a claim of ineffective assistance
• “Because decisions regarding cross-examination are strategic, they usually ‘will not support an ineffective assistance claim.’ ”

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sims v. Griffin
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-06-01· cited 29×
• United States v. Vialva
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-09-14· cited 22×
• Harper v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-04-05· cited 6×
• United States v. Boukamp
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-06-25· cited 5×
• United States v. Francisco Colorado Cessa
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-09-25· cited 4×
• United States v. Valas
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-07-08· cited 4×
• Harper v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-12-01· cited 3×
• Christopher Andre Vialva v. T. J. Watson
  Seventh Circuit· 2020-09-18· cited 2×
• Brewer v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-04-27· cited 1×
• Dowthitt v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-11-22
• United States v. Christopher Vialva
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-09-14
• Alan Dale Walker v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2020-06-25
• United States v. Christopher Vialva
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-09-21
• Abdur Rahim Ambrose a/k/a Abdur Ambrose v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2021-05-20

Cites

42 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×
• Slack v. McDaniel
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-26· cited 41,291×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• United States v. Frady
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 5,791×
• Lockhart v. Fretwell
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,956×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Moore v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 1,226×
• Banks v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2004-02-24· cited 1,098×
• Bobby v. Van Hook
  Supreme Court· 2009-11-09· cited 514×
• United States v. John O. Green A/K/A John O. Hornung
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-10-11· cited 242×
• Clark v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-01-28· cited 219×
• Craig Dunham v. Brion Travis, Chair, New York State Parole Board
  Second Circuit· 2002-12-17· cited 207×
• Benny Dale Alexander v. O.L. McCotter Director, of Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-09-30· cited 181×
• Gregory v. Thaler
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-03-22· cited 156×

Other cases named United States v. Christopher Vialva

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• United States v. Christopher Vialva
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-09-14
• United States v. Christopher Vialva
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-09-21