Franks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the Supreme Court’s use of the ABA’s Guidelines and “the standard practice of the jurisdiction at the time” in measuring trial counsel’s mitigation investigation
• applying the highly probable test to determine whether a jury instruction rendered erroneous by a new rule adopted while the case was in the appellate pipeline constituted reversible error
• in evaluating claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, ‘‘‘we are not interested in grading lawyers’ performances; we are interested in whether the adversarial process at trial, in fact, worked adequately’”
• after killing victim’s husband at store, defendant went to victim’s home, stole money from safe, repeatedly stabbed victim and attacked her children
• counsel’s strategy of conceding commission of acts but not the requisite mental state was not unreasonable, given overwhelming evidence
• counsel’s strategy of conceding commission of acts but not the requisite mental state was not unreasonable, given overwhelming evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 99×
• Stinski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 65×
• Shank v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 63×
• David Scott Franks v. GDCP Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-09-16· cited 52×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 49×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 45×
• O'KELLEY v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 44×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 40×
• Flanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 33×
• Muller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 28×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 28×
• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-01· cited 27×
• Rayshad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-12-01· cited 26×
• Rice v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-29· cited 24×
• Tollette v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-07· cited 23×

Cites

48 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×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Jerry White v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-09-03· cited 412×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• United States v. Williamson
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-04-14· cited 264×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 143×
• Crowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-26· cited 133×
• Burgeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-09· cited 126×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 107×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Raulerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Pye v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 91×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Morrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 90×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 87×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×