Cochran v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial counsel’s withdrawal of a requested jury instruction on mere presence did not prejudice the appellant, because other instructions sufficiently covered that point
• finding that trial counsel’s failure to present cumulative evidence through additional testimony did not amount to ineffective assistance
• “the evidence does not have to exclude every conceivable inference or hypothesis” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• failure to subpoena officer whose testimony would have been cumulative of other testimony did not establish ineffective assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-01-18· cited 52×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 18×
• Mohamed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 16×
• Carson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 15×
• Blackshear v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 14×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 14×
• Beamon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 12×
• Hounkpatin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 12×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 12×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 10×
• Garay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 10×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 8×
• McNabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 8×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 8×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 8×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 7×
• Hughs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 7×
• McGuire v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 6×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 4×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 4×

Cites

34 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×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• Peoples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 75×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 75×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-04-04· cited 66×
• Plez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 59×
• Booth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 59×
• Conaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 58×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 56×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 55×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-10· cited 53×
• Linson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 53×
• Rector v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 51×