Barrett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that this Court is “not required to find identical cases for comparison in [its] proportionality review”
• explaining that seldom, if ever, will the facts surrounding two death penalty cases be entirely alike and that this Court is not required to find identical cases for comparison in its proportionality review
• explaining that seldom, if ever, will the facts surrounding two death penalty cases be entirely alike and that this Court is not required to find identical cases for comparison in its proportionality review
• explaining that seldom, if ever, will the facts surrounding two death penalty cases be entirely alike and that this Court is not required to find identical cases for comparison in its proportionality review
• assuming trial counsel were deficient in failing to present certain types of mitigating evidence but refusing to consider in the prejudice analysis the type of mitigating evidence that counsel discussed presenting with the defendant but that the defendant instructed counsel not to present
• no prejudice shown from counsel’s failure to request a charge where defendant’s own testimony would not support the charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Lyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 42×
• Bulloch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 40×
• Rivera v. the State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 35×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 34×
• State v. Spratlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 27×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 20×
• State v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 17×
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 15×
• HALL, WARDEN v. JACKSON (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-01· cited 15×
• Rozier v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 14×
• Humphrey v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-07-11· cited 13×
• State v. Lexie
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-20· cited 11×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 10×
• Burke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 10×
• FORD v. TATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-31· cited 9×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-24· cited 9×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 9×
• Crouch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 8×

Cites

63 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×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Schriro v. Landrigan
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-14· cited 3,241×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Conner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-24· cited 147×
• Darrell B. Grayson v. Leslie Thompson
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-07-16· cited 135×
• Wilson v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-21· cited 132×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Cummings v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-12-04· cited 130×
• Lajara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-18· cited 126×
• Reed v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-01-11· cited 113×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 108×
• Conklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-06-27· cited 105×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 96×