Cowan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial counsel gave reasonable professional assistance where he determined that one alibi witness would hurt the defense, and the other did not remember defendant
• ineffective assistance of counsel claim failed where evidence showed that counsel’s investigator looked for, but did not find, purported witness and defendant failed to produce evidence that such a witness actually existed and would have testified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mangum v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 50×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 49×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-15· cited 25×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-24· cited 25×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 24×
• Tenorio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-11· cited 22×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-15· cited 22×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-13· cited 18×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-28· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-22· cited 17×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-30· cited 16×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-07· cited 14×
• Hillman v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 14×
• Herrington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-20· cited 12×
• Maxwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-04· cited 11×
• Wyche v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-14· cited 7×
• Addison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-20· cited 6×
• Bernoudy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-08-08· cited 5×
• Ferrill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-08· cited 4×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-21· cited 4×

Cites

26 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×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 122×
• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-12-05· cited 93×
• Gilstrap v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-12-05· cited 84×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-04-28· cited 61×
• McClarity v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-24· cited 57×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-20· cited 54×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 54×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-25· cited 49×
• Ponder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-01· cited 42×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 35×
• State v. Freeman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-12· cited 33×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-17· cited 24×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-04· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-09· cited 19×
• Seese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-09· cited 16×
• Etheridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-10· cited 15×