Whitson v. State

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 petitioner failed to meet his burden of overcoming the presumption that counsel were effective because the petitioner failed to question appellate counsel regarding their reasoning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reeves v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2016-06-10· cited 44×
• Broadnax v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-02-15· cited 32×
• Stallworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 29×
• State v. Toma
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2015-12-21
• Wayne Holleman Travis v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2023-03-24

Cites

44 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×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Evitts v. Lucey
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-18· cited 3,068×
• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• David Ronald Chandler v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-07-21· cited 1,022×
• Raymond L. Buckelew and James Laney Jenkins v. United States of America, Judson Lee Drane v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-06-19· cited 355×
• Norman Elmer Miller v. J.C. Keeney, Superintendent
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-08-15· cited 329×
• John Lewis Washington v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-09-14· cited 280×
• David M. Pruett v. Charles Thompson
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-05-25· cited 165×
• Peter James Schwander v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary and William J. Custe, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-01-17· cited 139×
• Hallford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-12-10· cited 136×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-09-26· cited 134×
• Hull v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-08-21· cited 121×
• Ex Parte White
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2001-03-09· cited 116×
• Elliott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-02-28· cited 106×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-02-28· cited 100×
• Hamm v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-02-01· cited 91×
• Ex Parte Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-05-28· cited 83×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-09-04· cited 74×