Ivey 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 a detective’s testimony that the defendant’s “demeanor changed . . . you could tell that the wheels were turning” was not a “direct comment on [the defendant’s] veracity”
• holding that the failure to raise a meritless objection is not deficient performance
• concluding that defense counsel’s failure to present the victim’s toxicology report did not prejudice the defendant in part because the report “would have been cumulative of other evidence introduced at trial”
• holding that a detective’s testimony that the defendant’s “demeanor changed . . . you could tell that the wheels were turning” was not a “direct comment on [the defendant’s] veracity”
• holding that the failure to raise a meritless objection does not constitute deficient performance
• “[T]he jury . . . is free to reject a defendant’s claim that he acted in self-defense.” (citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 36×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 27×
• Jivens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 24×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 19×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 18×
• Drennon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 18×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 18×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-06· cited 18×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 14×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 13×
• Gude v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 11×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 9×
• Maynor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 9×
• Dobbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 8×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 8×
• GARDHIGH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 6×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 4×
• Jiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 4×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-19· cited 4×
• Ryals v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 3×

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×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 127×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 57×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 45×
• Eller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 30×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 24×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 17×
• Hightower v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 15×
• Mondragon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 9×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 8×
• Starks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 7×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-04· cited 6×