Floyd v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[d]eciding what evidence to present or to forego in defending a client charged with a crime is a matter of strategy and tactics, and matters of reasonable trial strategy and tactics do not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel” (punctuation omitted)
• counsel rendered ineffective assistance by erroneously advising defendant he would be eligible for parole after serving 90 percent of mandatory minimum sentence on aggravated child molestation charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-14· cited 29×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 14×
• Hogan v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-05· cited 12×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• State v. Heath
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-10· cited 35×
• Cantrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-25· cited 22×
• Crabbe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-28· cited 16×
• Dukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-26· cited 15×
• Defrancisco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 10×
• Tadic v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-10· cited 6×