44 Cited authorities

  1. Strickland v. Washington

    466 U.S. 668 (1984)   Cited 158,807 times   176 Legal Analyses
    Holding an "error by counsel" doesn't "warrant setting aside the judgment of a criminal proceeding" where in the context of the whole proceeding the identified error "had no effect on the judgment"
  2. Terry v. Ohio

    392 U.S. 1 (1968)   Cited 38,169 times   73 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a police officer who has reasonable suspicion of criminal activity may conduct a brief investigative stop
  3. Riley v. California

    573 U.S. 373 (2014)   Cited 2,615 times   90 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the call records and text messages contained on a cell phone owned by his employer because he "had a right to exclude others from using the phone" and explaining that "a property interest in the item searched is only one factor in the analysis, and lack thereof is not dispositive"
  4. Chapman v. California

    386 U.S. 18 (1967)   Cited 23,483 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that error is harmless only if "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"
  5. Hinton v. Alabama

    571 U.S. 263 (2014)   Cited 842 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing apparently to understand relevant law relating to expert testimony at trial
  6. United States v. Robinson

    414 U.S. 218 (1973)   Cited 3,360 times   24 Legal Analyses
    Holding that law enforcement officers are authorized to conduct a full search of every lawful custodial arrestee
  7. Sibron v. New York

    392 U.S. 40 (1968)   Cited 3,595 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that appeal from conviction after service of sentence not moot if there may be collateral consequences
  8. Nix v. Whiteside

    475 U.S. 157 (1986)   Cited 1,066 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding first that counsel's refusal to present perjured testimony breached no professional duty and second that it cannot establish prejudice under Strickland
  9. People v. Crimmins

    36 N.Y.2d 230 (N.Y. 1975)   Cited 5,688 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an error is prejudicial "if an appellate court concludes that there is a significant probability, rather than only a rational possibility, in the particular case that the jury would have acquitted the defendant had it not been for the error or errors which occurred"
  10. People v. De Bour

    40 N.Y.2d 210 (N.Y. 1976)   Cited 2,271 times   6 Legal Analyses
    In People v. LaPene, 352 N.E.2d 562 (N.Y. 1976), the New York Court of Appeals laid out a sliding scale of justifiable police intrusion, short of probable cause to arrest, which specified three distinct levels of intrusion correlating the allowable intensity of police conduct to the nature and weight of the facts precipitating the intrusion.