Benefield 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 further that “fe]ach case must be judged upon its own circumstances and in light of its own degree of complexity”
• “Review of counsel’s performance must be highly deferential; tactical decisions amount to ineffective assistance only if so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davenport v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-02· cited 37×
• Herndon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-12· cited 33×
• Bunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-27· cited 20×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-31· cited 19×
• Buchanan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-06· cited 15×
• Redman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-29· cited 14×
• Joiner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-28· cited 8×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 7×
• Ledbetter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-15· cited 3×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-12· cited 3×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-14· cited 58×
• Fargason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 48×
• Hand v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-09-11· cited 23×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-20· cited 16×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-11· cited 13×
• Cauley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-03-10· cited 13×