Hartsfield 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 defense counsel’s failure to object to hearsay statements in an effort to show that defendant had nothing to hide was reasonable trial strategy
• holding that defendant’s mistrial claim was waived on appeal because he failed to renew his motion after the court’s admonishment and curative instruction
• concluding that the defendant waived challenge to denial of motion for mistrial where he failed to renew his motion following the trial court’s admonishment of prosecutor and curative instruction
• concluding appellate review was waived when a renewed motion for mistrial was not made after the trial court gave a curative instruction
• concluding appellate review was waived when a renewed motion for mistrial was not made after the trial court gave a curative instruction
• explaining that “it was a reasonable trial strategy not to object [to the hearsay] because if the objection had been sustained, the State could have called the declarants to testify”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• 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×
• Sowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-11· cited 57×
• Bozzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 55×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Propst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 47×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 45×
• Jivens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-02-01· cited 22×
• Arbegast v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22· cited 20×
• Pittman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 19×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-16· cited 16×
• The State v. Walker.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-17· cited 15×
• Blackshear v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 14×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 13×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 13×
• Pena v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 12×
• CLEMENTS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 12×

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×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 77×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 65×
• McKibbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 50×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 33×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 33×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-28· cited 28×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 28×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 12×
• Alexis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-13· cited 11×
• Coburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-17· cited 10×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 4×