Berry 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 trial counsel did not render ineffective assistance because it did not impermissibly comment on evidence in murder prosecution by its comment on an evidentiary matter when court instructed the jury that anything it said during trial was not intended to suggest a verdict
• relating in part to the difference between charges on accident and transferred intent
• matters of tactics and strategy, whether “wise or unwise,” do not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel
• reasonableness of trial counsel’s conduct is viewed at the time of trial and under the circumstances of the case
• defendant’s testimony that he fired to defend himself and scare the victim did not invoke the defense of accident
• specific intent to kill is required to convict of malice murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 104×
• State v. Gardner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 73×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 66×
• Battles v. Chapman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 59×
• Stansell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 53×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 51×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 44×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 41×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 39×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-13· cited 37×
• Turpin v. Christenson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-16· cited 37×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 35×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 29×
• Espinosa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-22· cited 24×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 24×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-07-03· cited 22×
• Dolensek v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-08· cited 21×

Cites

25 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• McMichen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-14· cited 91×
• Philmore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-19· cited 76×
• Lumpkin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-23· cited 64×
• Kelly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-04· cited 60×
• Luallen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 56×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-16· cited 54×
• Barner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 39×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-06· cited 36×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-01· cited 20×
• George v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-21· cited 19×
• Duke v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-01-16· cited 19×
• Roland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 18×
• Lemay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 18×
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-04-23· cited 17×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-04· cited 16×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 14×