Fisher 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 not requesting an accomplice-corroboration instruction was an unreasonable strategy in light of the trial court's decision to give a single witness instruction and the defense theory that the accomplice was trying to shift blame from himself and should not be believed
• holding that not requesting an accomplice-corroboration instruction was an unreasonable strategy in light of the trial court’s decision to give a single witness instruction and the defense theory that the accomplice was trying to shift blame from himself and should not be believed
• trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance where he chose not to request a jury charge on accomplice * corroboration where only one witness - the alleged accomplice - positively connected the defendant to the crime
• trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance where he chose not to request a jury charge on accomplice corroboration where only one witness — the alleged accomplice — positively connected the defendant to the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• Lyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 42×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 38×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 33×
• Manner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 32×
• Vasquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 29×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 29×
• Munn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 27×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 26×
• Fisher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 14×
• Cartwright v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 12×
• Tran v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-08· cited 8×
• Burns v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-27· cited 8×
• Fisher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12
• ROSS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-27
• Dell Jackson, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Lofton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-01

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Bradshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-02· cited 172×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Dickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 114×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Stanbury v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 57×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 45×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 29×
• Babbage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 23×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 21×
• Benjamin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-23· cited 6×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-04· cited 4×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 4×