Allen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the appellant forfeited his ineffective assistance of counsel claim where he “did not raise [the] claim . . . in his initial motion for new trial or the amendments made thereto by appellate counsel. He did not raise such a claim in the hearing on the motion”
• explaining that the appellant forfeited his ineffective assistance of counsel claim where he “did not raise [the] claim . . . in his initial motion for new trial or the amendments made thereto by appellate counsel. He did not raise such a claim in the hearing on the motion”
• cumulative prejudice claim failed where the appellant did not show prejudice from any of the assumed deficiencies of counsel
• “‘A nonconstitutional error is harmless if the State shows that it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.’”
• “A nonconstitutional error is harmless if the State shows that it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
• as the finder of fact, the trial court “is not required to credit testimony merely because it is unrebutted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Troutman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 15×
• Kimbro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 13×
• Maynor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 7×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Sharkey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 5×
• Vendrel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 5×
• Hardy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 4×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 4×
• Eleby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 3×
• Weston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-13· cited 2×
• State v. Gates
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 1×
• Pedro Tamayo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-01
• Ty Rutledge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-13
• Nicole Duree Guerra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-31
• David Rubio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-08-15
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-11-04
• Kelly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21

Cites

31 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Dickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 114×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-26· cited 61×
• Devega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 56×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 52×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 32×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 24×
• Manning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 21×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-04-18· cited 18×
• Cormier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 16×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 16×