Evans 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 a defendant could not establish deficient performance based on a failure to move to suppress evidence because “a motion to suppress the evidence would have been meritless”
• “Where, as here, [a defendant] claims that trial counsel was deficient for failing to file a motion to suppress, the defendant must make a strong showing that the damaging evidence would have been suppressed had counsel made the motion.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 25×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• Peacock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-07· cited 21×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 19×
• State v. Franklin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 15×
• TABOR v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 11×
• Jahmar Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-04
• Desmond Legrant Staley, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-15
• EVANS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Woschula v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-15
• Craig Trammell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-11-20

Cites

22 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Raulerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Arrington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 91×
• Caffee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 48×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 45×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 42×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 27×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 24×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 23×
• Mosley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 20×
• Henson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 17×
• Nixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-04· cited 14×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 14×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 13×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 7×