Brooks 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 limited types of unpreserved claims that are subject to plain error review and holding that this Court has not extended plain error analysis to other claims of error in the absence of a specific legislative provision
• “An attorney’s decision about which defense to present is a question of trial strategy, and trial strategy, if reasonable, does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. OWENS (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 20×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 20×
• Montanez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 11×
• Vivian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 10×
• Leonard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 10×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 9×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Nesbit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 8×
• DUNSTON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-11· cited 7×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Willie Frank Wright, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-08
• Joshua Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Jahmar Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-04
• Fripp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Robert Jordan Mahogany v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-02-13
• Durlav Rijal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-05-23
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-05
• Tabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

Cites

24 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×
• Old Chief v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-01-07· cited 2,913×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Benham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 57×
• Hammock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-02· cited 31×
• Smith v. Stacey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 31×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 31×
• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 29×
• Sawyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 27×
• Kendrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-05· cited 17×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 15×
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• McKie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 14×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 13×