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.

• finding no fatal variance even where defendant not charged as party to a crime
• finding no fatal variance even where defendant not charged as party to a crime
• “[The] decision not to request a jury charge on a lesser included offense in order to pursue an ‘all-or-nothing’ defense is a matter of trial strategy,” and reasonable trial strategy, whether wise or unwise, generally does not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.
• “[The] decision not to request a jury charge on a lesser included offense in order to pursue an ‘all-or-nothing’ defense is a matter of trial strategy,” and reasonable trial strategy, whether wise or unwise, generally does not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 35×
• Wells v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 35×
• Lebis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 35×
• Mathews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 11×
• Burnette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-13· cited 8×
• Styles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-24· cited 8×
• Elamin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-18· cited 7×
• BYRD v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-28· cited 4×
• Justin Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Dominique Styles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-24

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Van Alstine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 87×
• Ojemuyiwa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-31· cited 28×
• Bogan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-13· cited 27×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-10· cited 20×
• Wakily v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 20×
• Sparks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 19×
• Hindman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-16· cited 10×
• Mendoza v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-27· cited 7×
• Perkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-09· cited 7×
• Benefield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-13· cited 6×