Childs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no abuse of discretion in denying motion for mistrial when curative instruction told jury to disregard testimony that defendant gave drugs to witness
• no abuse of discretion in denial of mistrial where trial court instructed jury to disregard improper witness testimony
• defense counsel’s alleged lack of preparation, occasioned by state’s failure to disclose a witness which was not counsel’s fault, did not constitute deficient performance
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying motion for mistrial when it gave curative instruction to disregard testimony that defendant gave drugs to witness
• The defendant failed to present any evidence at the motion for new trial hearing to show that his defense was prejudiced because his trial counsel failed to interview a certain witness before trial.
• The defendant failed to present any evidence at the motion for new trial hearing to show that his defense was prejudiced because his trial counsel failed to interview a certain witness before trial.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• Billings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 58×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 33×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 22×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-23· cited 22×
• Norris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 21×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 20×
• Eskew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-30· cited 17×
• Stroud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 14×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 12×
• Wilkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 12×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-27· cited 9×
• Gooden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-18· cited 6×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• Dunham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-17· cited 3×
• Slan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13· cited 3×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 2×
• Ryans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 2×
• Mauldin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-07· cited 2×

Cites

18 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×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• McGautha v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 1,077×
• Ohler v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-22· cited 666×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• State v. Gassler
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-09-03· cited 94×
• Dixon v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1972-01-31· cited 88×
• State v. Harrell
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-03-25· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Maguire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-12· cited 69×
• People v. Rosenberg
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 44×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-02· cited 39×
• Lowell v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-02-24· cited 35×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 22×
• Cockrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 20×
• Ottis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-06-07· cited 20×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 11×
• State v. Minnieweather
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1989-10-25· cited 9×