Davis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that counsel’s familiarity with a legally and factually complex case and their longstanding relationship with the defendant were “weighty considerations” favoring the appointment of those lawyers
• addressing a defendant’s desire to retain counsel who had represented him in his previous trial in the same matter
• reversing where, before the mentally “fragile” defendant’s third death penalty sentencing proceeding, the trial court replaced his two longtime and experienced counsel, who were available and willing to serve, with a new attorney
• discussing circumstances under which indigent defendant may assert preference for counsel
• Justice Hunt concurring in part and dissenting in part

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Gibson v. Turpin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-22· cited 75×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 49×
• Phan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 36×
• Thomas Robert Lane v. State of Alabama.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-02-05· cited 18×
• Spear v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-17· cited 16×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-16· cited 16×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 11×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 11×
• Sacandy v. Walther
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-27· cited 8×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-10· cited 7×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-31· cited 5×
• McCullough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 5×
• Boyette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-06-14· cited 3×
• Edwards v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-30
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-26

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harris v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1977-08-24· cited 78×
• Lipham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-12· cited 45×
• Amadeo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-10-05· cited 27×
• Farmer v. Holton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-05-04· cited 22×