Holmes 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 was not deficient for failing to object to the prosecutor’s closing argument because “an objection may simply have highlighted the point being made by the prosecution” (cleaned up)
• recognizing constitutional and statutory authority of trial court to reinstate one juror and remove another
• noting that in some cases, “an objection may simply have highlighted the point being made by the prosecution” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• explaining that where the trial court's charge fairly informed the jury when a homicide is justifiable and the defendant did not request a charge on the specific forcible felony, there is no harmful error
• explaining that where the trial court’s charge fairly informed the jury when a homicide is justifiable and the defendant did not request a charge on the specific forcible felony, there is no harmful error
• approving practice of remedying Batson violations by reseating jurors who remain unaware of party who struck them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 80×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 65×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 58×
• Faust v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 54×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 51×
• Sweet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 49×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 44×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 43×
• Stokes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 42×
• Mohamud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 39×
• Humphrey v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 30×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 29×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-17· cited 29×
• Shivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-01· cited 27×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 26×
• Glidewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-27· cited 25×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 25×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-25· cited 24×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 23×

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Felix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 201×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Tolver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 51×
• Cammon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 44×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 43×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-28· cited 38×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-11· cited 27×
• Ellerbee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-07· cited 26×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 26×
• Polk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-06· cited 22×
• Wiseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-22· cited 20×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-10-10· cited 19×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-05· cited 18×
• Hyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 17×
• Gentry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-01· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-06· cited 16×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-17· cited 16×