Conaway 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 counsel’s decision to pursue solely an accident defense and not request a coercion instruction was reasonable strategy
• holding that even if counsel had requested an instruction on coercion and it had been warranted, the trial court’s failure to give it would have been harmless
• concluding that the evidence supporting the appellant's convictions was legally sufficient, notwithstanding his testimony that he was coerced to commit the crimes, which \at most created a conflict with other evidence that showed his participation in the crimes was voluntary\
• concluding that the evidence supporting the appellant’s convictions was legally sufficient, notwithstanding his testimony that he was coerced to commit the crimes, which “at most created a conflict with other evidence that showed his participation in the crimes was voluntary”
• concluding that the evidence supporting the appellant’s convictions was legally sufficient, notwithstanding his testimony that he was coerced to commit the crimes, which “at most created a conflict with other evidence that showed his participation in the crimes was voluntary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sweet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 49×
• McClure v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 48×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 45×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 31×
• Hendricks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 25×
• Espinosa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-22· cited 24×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 23×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 23×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-09· cited 21×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-15· cited 18×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Lambert v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 16×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-11· cited 16×
• McClain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-05· cited 12×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 12×
• Gravitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 11×
• Raybon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-18· cited 11×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 9×
• State v. Wofford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-19· cited 9×
• Feaster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-02· cited 8×

Cites

12 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×
• Romine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-12-02· cited 135×
• Slade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 69×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 47×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1892-08-23· cited 45×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 43×
• Rucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 41×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-22· cited 9×
• Canada v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-15· cited 9×