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.

• “Atrial attorney’s decision to pursue a specific defense is reasonable if it is supported by the evidence in the case.”
• trial counsel’s decision to abandon a particular theory of the case initially raised in opening statement “in light of the evidence offered at trial” constituted reasonable trial strategy
• trial 14 counsel’s decision to abandon a particular theory of the case initially raised in opening statement “in light of the evidence offered at trial” constituted reasonable trial strategy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 45×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 28×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 24×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 16×
• Hites v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 12×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-02-18· cited 12×
• Funck v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 6×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-04-20· cited 3×
• Guthridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 3×
• Lopez v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 2×
• Ivan Dale Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-02-18

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 46×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 43×
• Handley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 42×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 26×
• Vanstavern v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 9×
• Mayberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 7×