Head 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 counsel’s failure to request a mistrial did not constitute ineffective assistance because it affirmatively appeared from the record that the trial court in its discretion would have denied the request
• counsel’s decision not to question a witness about an inconsistent statement was a question of trial strategy not amounting to ineffective assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Littlejohn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-08· cited 26×
• Celestin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 17×
• Adorno v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-01· cited 9×
• Traylor v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22· cited 8×
• KIRKLAND v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• Atwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-18· cited 6×
• KAUFMAN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-01-26· cited 4×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-14· cited 3×
• Ramiro Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-14
• Daniel Kirk Littlejohn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-08
• Jeffrey Keith Bunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-02-25

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Rankin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 207×
• Jowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-10-18· cited 51×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-18· cited 23×
• Hardeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 20×
• Rose v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-17· cited 18×
• Timberlake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-05· cited 16×
• Grindle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-19· cited 4×