Johnson 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 21-month delay raises the presumption of prejudice
• noting failure to present evidence that possible exculpatory witnesses were not called because of delay
• “a 21-month delay is insufficient to raise an inference of actual prejudice”; because defendant offered no evidence of specific impairment of his defense, factor weighed against defendant
• when assessing reasonableness of lawyer’s conduct for purposes of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, court must “eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight and . . . evaluate the conduct from counsel’s perspective at the time”
• 21 months raises threshold presumption of prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-22· cited 83×
• Brannen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 66×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-09-11· cited 61×
• Nelloms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 61×
• Battles v. Chapman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 59×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 58×
• State v. Redding
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-11· cited 52×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 50×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 46×
• Higgenbottom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-10· cited 45×
• Mullinax v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 39×
• Rafi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 38×
• Hester v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-24· cited 30×
• Forshee v. Employers Mutual Casualty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-28· cited 28×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-03· cited 27×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 27×
• Nusser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-18· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 22×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 22×
• Jakupovic v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 20×

Cites

11 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×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Boseman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-24· cited 143×
• Dukes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-30· cited 68×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-12-27· cited 62×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Luallen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-01-22· cited 56×
• Perry v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-11-07· cited 54×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-28· cited 48×