Collins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting ineffective assistance claim where counsel introduced defendant’s criminal record on direct examination as part of defense strategy of portraying defendant “as a truthful man with nothing to hide”
• A defendant must “show that there is a reasonable probability that, absent his counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of his trial would have been different.”
• counsel did not render ineffective assistance where counsel, in attempt to portray defendant as truthful man with nothing to hide, had defendant testify on direct concerning his prior criminal conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 55×
• Rickman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 40×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-11· cited 17×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-01· cited 10×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-04-02· cited 9×
• Kimmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-14· cited 6×
• Keown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-17· cited 5×
• Sellers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 4×
• Drummond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-11· cited 4×
• Spencer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-20· cited 4×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-26· cited 4×
• Bryan Fossier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-12-29
• Joseph Scott Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-04-02
• State v. Darrell Reed Shelnutt
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-04
• Saunders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09

Cites

8 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-01-06· cited 169×
• Pless v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-04-12· cited 28×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-29· cited 12×
• Castleberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 8×