137 Cited authorities

  1. Strickland v. Washington

    466 U.S. 668 (1984)   Cited 158,859 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. Apprendi v. New Jersey

    530 U.S. 466 (2000)   Cited 26,650 times   100 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt”
  3. Estelle v. McGuire

    502 U.S. 62 (1991)   Cited 19,981 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a federal habeas court may not reexamine state court determinations of state law questions
  4. United States v. Olano

    507 U.S. 725 (1993)   Cited 11,255 times   25 Legal Analyses
    Holding that plain error review requires a reviewing court to refrain from correcting an error unless it is plain and affects "substantial rights," such that the error "seriously affect the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings"
  5. Miranda v. Arizona

    384 U.S. 436 (1966)   Cited 60,305 times   64 Legal Analyses
    Holding that statements obtained by custodial interrogation of a criminal defendant without warning of constitutional rights are inadmissible under the Fifth Amendment
  6. Chapman v. California

    386 U.S. 18 (1967)   Cited 23,490 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that error is harmless only if "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"
  7. McDonald v. City of Chicago

    561 U.S. 742 (2010)   Cited 2,276 times   21 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Second Amendment applies to the states, through incorporation under the Fourteenth Amendment
  8. United States v. Cronic

    466 U.S. 648 (1984)   Cited 7,368 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Holding defendant is constructively denied counsel during critical stage of criminal proceedings where counsel, inter alia, "fails to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing"
  9. McMann v. Richardson

    397 U.S. 759 (1970)   Cited 7,413 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that even a possible misjudgment about admissibility of evidence is not ineffective assistance.
  10. Wainwright v. Witt

    469 U.S. 412 (1985)   Cited 3,274 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that juror bias determination is a question of fact, even though "[t]he trial judge is of course applying some kind of legal standard to what he sees and hears"
  11. Section 1201 - Kidnapping

    18 U.S.C. § 1201   Cited 3,383 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Providing for "imprisonment for any term of years or for life"
  12. Section 15

    Cal. Const. art. I § 15   Cited 3,314 times
    Affording “the right ... to compel attendance of witnesses in the defendant's behalf”