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, because a detective did not directly comment on a witness’s veracity, the detective did not improperly comment on the credibility of the witness
• holding that, because a detective did not directly comment on a witness’s veracity, the detective did not improperly comment on the credibility of the witness
• holding that a detective’s testimony that shooting victims “tell you the whole story about what happened” and “that is basically the pattern that [I] saw here” was not a direct comment on 11 the victim witness’s credibility
• holding that a detective’s testimony that shooting victims “tell you the whole story about what happened” and “that is basically the pattern that [I] saw here” was not a direct comment on the victim witness’s credibility
• “[F]ailure to make a meritless objection cannot support a claim of ineffective assistance.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “Viewed in context, [the detective’s] testimony was not a direct comment on [the witness’s] veracity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• McAllister v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-25· cited 44×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 34×
• Sawyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 27×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 23×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 19×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 6×
• Sturkey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 6×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 4×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-19· cited 4×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-01-11
• Christopher Sanchious v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-15
• Jose Antonio Ramirez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-03-07
• Lionel Dely v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-03-13
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10
• David Billy McAllister, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-25
• David Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-30

Cites

19 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 57×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 53×
• Manzano v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 36×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 34×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-16· cited 22×
• Manriquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-19· cited 20×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-08-16· cited 20×
• Scudder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-08· cited 17×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-24· cited 10×