Capps v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Hindsight has no place in an assessment of the effectiveness of trial counsel. . . . Nor will speculation support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• trial counsel not ineffective for failing to object to witness testimony recounting defendant’s statements about killing African Americans, as the evidence was admissible to show defendant’s racial animus and possible motive for killing the African- American victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 46×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 46×
• Slaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 24×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• Rhoden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 16×
• Speziali v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-30· cited 15×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• Bacon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-02· cited 9×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 7×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09

Cites

17 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×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 55×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 51×
• Lockhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 44×
• Stokes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 42×
• Mohamud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 39×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 31×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-19· cited 20×
• Lyon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-28· cited 19×
• Boring v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-05-31· cited 15×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 15×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 7×