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 reasonable trial tactics do not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel
• “A fair assessment of attorney performance requires that every effort be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight.” (Citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 39×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 29×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 23×
• DELOACH v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 22×
• Bowling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 20×
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 12×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 6×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 5×
• Chatman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-28· cited 3×

Cites

5 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×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 59×
• Austin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 14×