Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial counsel did not act unreasonably in failing to raise the issue of the defendant’s mental health at trial
• holding that a witness may give his lay opinion “as to the existence of any fact” if the opinion is based upon the witness’s “own experiences and observations” and if the matter referred to is “within the scope of the average juror’s knowledge”
• defendant's claim of error failed when he could \show no harm from the failure to introduce at sentencing more detail about his mental health history\
• defendant’s claim of error failed when he could “show no harm from the failure to introduce at sentencing more detail about his mental health history”
• lay witness may relate opinion as to the existence of any fact so long as it is based on that person’s own experiences and observations and matter referred to is within scope of average juror’s knowledge
• “A lay witness may relate his or her opinion as to the existence of any fact so long as the opinion is based upon the person’s own experiences during Ms. Sampson’s testimony. See OCGA § 5-6-41 (f) (providing for amendments to the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-06· cited 55×
• Goldstein v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-01· cited 42×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 40×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 39×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 38×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 37×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 35×
• Glass v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-11· cited 34×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 32×
• Rios v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-30· cited 28×
• Hendricks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-29· cited 25×
• Rai v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-07-06· cited 24×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-21· cited 23×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-08· cited 21×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 21×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 21×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 21×
• Lawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 19×
• Giddens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-14· cited 17×

Cites

17 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×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 78×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-10· cited 33×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 29×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 24×
• Hunt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 17×
• Boswell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 17×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 16×
• Slaughter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 15×
• Shiver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-09· cited 7×
• Weston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-04-29· cited 7×
• McCutchen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-04-29· cited 7×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 2×
• Shirley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-14· cited 2×