Goodson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the defendant had failed to show prejudice where he had “not shown a reasonable probability that the immunity motion would have been granted”
• noting that to prove deficient performance, “[t]he criminal defendant must overcome the strong presumption that trial counsel’s conduct falls within the broad range of reasonable professional conduct”
• “Questions about the existence of justification are for the jury to resolve, and the jury may reject any evidence in support of a justification defense and accept evidence that [the act constituting the crime was not justified].”
• “Questions about the existence of justification are for the jury to resolve, and the jury may reject any evidence in support of a justification defense and accept evidence that a shooting was not done in self-defense.”
• “Questions about the existence of justification are for the jury to resolve, and the jury may reject any 6 evidence in support of a justification defense and accept evidence that a shooting was not done in self-defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• Velasco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 19×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 18×
• Dunbar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 13×
• State v. Remy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 13×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 12×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 10×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-08· cited 4×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 4×
• Depriest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 3×
• Orlando Jefferson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-04
• Goodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18
• Jonathan Burnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-02-28
• Darnell Craw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-19
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02

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×
• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 70×
• Domingues v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 60×
• Batten v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 58×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-22· cited 52×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 34×
• Jimmerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-05· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-17· cited 12×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 12×
• Holt v. Ebinger
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 7×
• Holt, Warden v. Ebinger
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 7×
• Moran v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 6×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-22· cited 6×
• Waddell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-09-05· cited 4×