Jones v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that testimony by a GBI agent that he thought a key State’s witness had been truthful during the investigation was subject to an improper bolstering objection
• explaining that “hindsight has no place in an assessment of the performance of trial counsel” when rejecting trial counsel’s subjective belief whether testimony was improper bolstering
• discussing several reasons why a reasonable lawyer might not object to bolstering testimony
• even where trial counsel admitted that some of the testimony was probably objectionable, finding no deficient performance because there were several reasons why a reasonable lawyer might not have objected
• “[R]easonable lawyer might have concluded that objecting to [the statements] could signal to the jury that the defense was worried about such testimony, thereby emphasizing the testimony and magnifying any harmful implications of it.”
• “[A] reasonable lawyer might have concluded that objecting to [bolstering] testimony could signal to the jury that the defense was worried about such testimony, thereby emphasizing the testimony and magnifying the harmful implications of it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Keller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 59×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Hartsfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 52×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 49×
• Propst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 47×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 42×
• Mohamud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 39×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 33×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 31×
• Babbage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 23×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 21×
• Deleon-Alvarez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-14· cited 18×
• Gilmer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-18· cited 16×
• Lay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 15×
• Rozier v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 14×
• Anglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 14×
• Humphrey v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-07-11· cited 13×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 13×

Cites

27 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×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Roe v. Flores-Ortega
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 2,810×
• David Ronald Chandler v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-07-21· cited 1,022×
• Burgeson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-09· cited 126×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 104×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• SOSNIAK v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 61×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Culpepper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 53×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 51×
• Poole v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 46×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28· cited 31×
• Bly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 30×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 26×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 20×