Fountain 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 that counsel’s decision to elicit a defendant’s criminal history was not prejudicial considering the overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt
• tactical errors do not constitute ineffective assistance in a case where defendant’s counsel introduced defendant’s prior criminal history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 34×
• State v. Darrell Reed Shelnutt
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-10-04

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 66×
• Keanum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-07· cited 29×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-04-25· cited 23×
• Wingfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-13· cited 11×
• Lowery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-11· cited 4×