Blackwell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that parole ineligibility is a “drastic penalty”
• rejecting argument that OCGA § 17-10-7 (a) requires a trial court to sentence a convicted felon to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole upon a subsequent murder conviction, and holding that OCGA § 17-10-7 (a
• in construing a statute, “we must read the statutory text in its most natural and reasonable way, as an ordinary speaker of the English language would”
• “The decision not to request a jury charge on a lesser included offense in order to pursue an ‘all-or-nothing’ defense is a matter of trial strategy.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “The appellant has the burden of showing a clear or obvious error and further making an affirmative showing that the error probably did affect the outcome below.”
• it is not patently unreasonable for trial counsel to make a strategic decision to base 13 the defense on the evidence at trial and on the defendant’s consistent account, rather than risk losing credibility with jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• Dozier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 29×
• Munn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 27×
• MUSE v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 27×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 26×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 21×
• Styles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 20×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 20×
• Velasco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 19×
• State v. Hanna
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 18×
• Goodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 18×
• Outlaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 18×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 16×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• Hinton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 11×
• SEALS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 10×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 10×
• Rountree v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 8×

Cites

48 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×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Van Alstine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 87×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 84×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-05· cited 77×
• People v. Colville
  New York Court of Appeals· 2012-10-23· cited 75×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 67×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 60×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-14· cited 57×
• State v. Riggs
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 57×
• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 46×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 46×
• Lyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 42×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 36×
• Wells v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 35×
• Jeffrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 35×