Gardner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The decision not to request a jury charge on a lesser included offense in order to pursue an all-or-nothing defense is a matter of trial strategy.”
• “[D]ecisions regarding trial tactics and strategy may form the basis for an ineffectiveness claim only if they were so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have followed such a course.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 12×
• Vann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 11×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 10×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• MORRIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 5×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 3×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• Marcelino Rebollar v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-04-14

Cites

11 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×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Humphrey v. Nance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 23×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 21×
• Velasco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 19×
• State v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 17×
• Ngumezi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-20· cited 2×