Woodward 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 counsel’s closing argument was ineffective when counsel admitted Woodward’s guilt and said he could not ask the jury to spare Woodward’s life other than on “redeeming love,” a non-mitigating circumstance
• finding defense strategy of conceding murder but arguing against capital murder did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel
• stating counsel were ineffective for not realizing they could have presented mental-illness testimony without \opening the door to unlimited character evidence\
• stating counsel were ineffective for not realizing they could have presented mental-illness testimony without “opening the door to unlimited character evidence”
• “Where the same counsel represents the defendant at trial and on direct appeal, the claim is procedurally viable on application for post-conviction relief.” (citing Perkins v. State, 487 So. 2d 791, 792-93 (Miss. 1986))
• finding similar strategy within range of competent representation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Evans v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-11· cited 404×
• Blue v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 332×
• Cole v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 315×
• Jackson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 290×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 275×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 258×
• Foster v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-05-16· cited 230×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 192×
• Brewer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-07-23· cited 180×
• Havard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-02-09· cited 173×
• Hiter v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-22· cited 171×
• Wilcher v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-02· cited 152×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 149×
• Booker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-09-04· cited 148×
• Stevens v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 121×
• Burns v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Holland v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-08· cited 112×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 106×
• Holly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 100×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-07-01· cited 87×

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×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Stringer v. Black
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 682×
• Shell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-29· cited 353×
• Faraga v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-07-29· cited 301×
• State v. Tokman
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-25· cited 287×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 280×
• Clemons v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-01-15· cited 252×
• Leatherwood v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 246×
• Gallop v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-20· cited 245×
• Pinkney v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 216×
• Shell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-03-11· cited 215×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-06-10· cited 208×
• William L. Wiley v. Steve W. Puckett, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, and Mike Moore, Attorney General
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-05· cited 199×
• Agee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-04-25· cited 182×
• Florida v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-31· cited 135×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-25· cited 108×
• Perkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-19· cited 75×
• Ferguson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-05-06· cited 59×
• Barry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-31· cited 58×