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.

• counsel’s decision to forgo objection to witness’s testimony in favor of impeaching the witness was reasonable trial strategy and did not support an ineffectiveness claim
• counsel’s decision not to object to witness’ hearsay testimony in favor of cross-examination was matter of trial strategy and not patently unreasonable so that no competent lawyer would have made it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McCord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 29×
• Nwakanma v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 28×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 26×
• Koonce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 24×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 23×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 17×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-03· cited 10×
• Dyer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-05-05· cited 9×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 8×
• KIRKLAND v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• SULLINS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-17· cited 7×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-29· cited 7×
• State v. Dague
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 4×
• Sorrells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 3×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 2×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-19· cited 2×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 1×
• Quintanar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Michael W. Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28

Cites

24 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Davis v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-19· cited 4,179×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Perry v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 2012-01-11· cited 846×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 108×
• Durham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 76×
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 45×
• Bulloch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 40×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 38×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 34×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-06· cited 31×
• Bunnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 31×
• McNaughton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 22×
• Sanford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 19×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-01· cited 16×
• Nations v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 15×