Atkinson 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 that it was objectively reasonable for counsel not to call a witness where counsel believed that the witness might not be credible
• explaining that the appellant failed to show trial counsel performed deficiently where “trial counsel did in fact attempt to interview [two witnesses], but they refused to speak with her”
• trial counsel “made a reasonable strategic decision not to call” a witness when she had concerns “that he might not be a credible witness”
• trial counsel “made a reasonable strategic decision not to call” a witness 7 when she had concerns “that he might not be a credible witness”
• counsel reasonably decided not to object to a comment about the defendant smoking ma- rijuana because “she did not find it to be important enough to draw attention to it”
• judgment line vacating in part due to merger error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Booth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 59×
• State v. Mondor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 33×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 29×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 18×
• Park v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 18×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 15×
• JACKSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 15×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 13×
• Beamon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 12×
• Mahdi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 10×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 10×
• Newton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 9×
• Stribling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 8×
• Hollmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 8×
• Tyson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 8×
• WILSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-01-22· cited 6×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 6×

Cites

43 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 680×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 192×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 86×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 52×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-28· cited 47×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 34×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 33×
• Peebles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-05-17· cited 32×
• State v. Wyatt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 32×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 29×