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 in the context of the trial court’s consideration of a motion for new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel that “a trial court is not required to credit testimony merely because it is unrebutted”
• “[sjpeculation is insufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland [v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668 (104 SCt 2052, 80 LE2d 674) (1984)]”
• even though defense was self-defense/justification, counsel did not perform deficiently in advising defendant to not testify for fear of evidence that could have presented him “badly to the jury”
• “[s]peculation is insufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668 (104 SCt 2052, 80 LE2d 674) (1984)]”
• even though defense was self-defense/justification, counsel did not perform deficiently in advising defendant to not testify for fear of evidence that could have presented him “badly to the jury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-07-05· cited 25×
• Whitaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 21×
• Flemister v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-02· cited 19×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 18×
• Barnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 18×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 17×
• Dyal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 10×
• Moses v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 9×
• Welch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-25· cited 7×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-20· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 5×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 5×
• Holder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-27· cited 5×
• Barlow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-24· cited 5×
• Slan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13· cited 3×
• Ronnie Pate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-02
• Billy Charles White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-23
• Michael Slan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13
• Bobby Flemister v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-02
• Ontarios Welch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-25

Cites

10 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×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• Handley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 42×
• Turpin v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 39×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-07-13· cited 21×
• Jones v. Leverette
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-02-19· cited 6×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 4×