Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reiterating that decisions as to what witnesses and other evidence to present are matters of trial strategy and are ineffective only if unreasonable ones no competent attorney would make
• reiterating that decisions about what witnesses to call are matters of trial strategy and constitute professionally deficient performance only when they are unreasonable ones that no competent attorney would make
• reiterating that decisions as to what witnesses and other evidence to present are matters of trial strategy and are ineffective only if unreasonable ones that no competent attorney would make
• decisions about which witnesses to call and rebutting opponent’s evidence are matters of trial strategy and tactics
• trial counsel’s performance was not deficient where she did not 7 call an expert because the experts she consulted expressed doubts about the defense theory
• trial counsel not deficient for discontinuing search for expert after trauma nurse and physician she consulted both expressed doubts about theory that child’s initial brain injury was accidental

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-27· cited 52×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-02-04· cited 34×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Stallworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 29×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 23×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 18×
• Perdue v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 17×
• Teasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 15×
• Birdow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 15×
• Hunt v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-29· cited 14×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-20· cited 12×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 11×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 10×
• Orengo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-27· cited 7×
• Horne v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-07-08· cited 6×
• LEWIS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 5×
• Kosturi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 4×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 98×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• Hubbard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-09-28· cited 14×