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.

• holding that “whether to impeach prosecution witnesses and how to do so are tactical decisions”
• holding that appellant failed to establish prejudice stemming from counsel’s failure to object to leading questions because an objection was unlikely to have prevented the admission of the testimony
• holding that “gruesome” video and photographic evidence depicting the crime scene and the victim’s body were “relevant to the victim’s identity and manner of death, as well as to corroborate [witnesses’] testimony”
• holding that “gruesome” video and photographic evidence depicting the crime scene and the victim’s body were “relevant to the victim’s identity and his manner of death, as well as to corroborate [witnesses’] testimony”
• concluding that detective’s testimony, which “did not speak directly to [witness’s] truthfulness” but instead, “involved whether aspects of [detective’s] investigation lined up with information provided by” witness, did not constitute improper bolstering
• no showing of prejudice “because an objection likely would not have prevented the admission of the testimony” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 28×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 27×
• Sawyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 27×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 23×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• DELOACH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 22×
• Mosley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 18×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Calhoun v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 17×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Gittens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Sinkfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-05· cited 17×
• Treadaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 16×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 15×
• Richards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 14×

Cites

25 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×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-12-03· cited 65×
• Plez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 59×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 57×
• Hartsfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 52×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 47×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 39×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 32×
• Major v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 31×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 28×
• Slaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 24×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 24×