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.

• noting that under Rouse, “[t]he decision whether to grant a motion to withdraw representation falls within the sound discretion of the trial court”
• “the ultimate decision over whether to move for a mistrial is a strategic one made by the lawyer, not the client”
• \[C]ounsel's decision whether to move for a mistrial generally falls within the ambit of trial strategy.\
• “[C]ounsel’s decision whether to move for a mistrial generally falls within the ambit of trial strategy.”
• disagreement between defense counsel and appellant “causing tension in their relationship” did not require grant of counsel’s motion to withdraw on basis that appellant “was angry” and “had lost confidence in him”
• “[T]he failure to transcribe limited portions of the trial 6 proceedings does not constitute reversible error, if the defendant fails to show how he was harmed or to raise any issue which this Court is unable to adequately review because of skips in the record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Towry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-20· cited 44×
• BAIRD v. STATE
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2017-06-01· cited 37×
• Holsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-17· cited 19×
• Hickson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-02· cited 11×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-24· cited 8×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-28· cited 4×
• Billings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-08· cited 3×
• Angulo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 3×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-20· cited 2×
• FENCIL v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-28
• Cameron Jerome White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-22
• Charles Edwin Mason v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-24
• Bennie Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-02-21

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 179×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 102×
• Fults v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-11· cited 89×
• Van Alstine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 87×
• Solomon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-14· cited 83×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 60×
• Fargason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 48×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 47×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 47×
• Lipham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-02-12· cited 45×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-22· cited 38×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-10· cited 37×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 37×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-06· cited 34×
• Fortson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-10-21· cited 31×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-14· cited 26×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-17· cited 23×