Jordan 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 trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s request for continuance to hire new counsel made five days before trial even though defendant expressed disagreement with current counsel’s strategy
• “[TJhere is no magic in mere nomenclature, and pleadings are construed to serve the best interests of the pleader, and are judged by function rather than name.”
• “there is no magic in mere nomenclature, and pleadings are construed to serve the best interests of the pleader, and are judged by function rather than name”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 102×
• Davis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-02-18· cited 59×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-17· cited 40×
• Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. UNIV. OF GEORGIA ATHLETIC ASS'N, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-09· cited 35×
• Tyner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-13· cited 28×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-12-20· cited 18×
• Lockett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-25· cited 15×
• Glover v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-06· cited 12×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-08-16· cited 11×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-01· cited 7×
• Venegas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-08· cited 5×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-26· cited 5×
• Hood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-09· cited 3×
• State v. Huckeba
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-27· cited 3×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-24· cited 3×
• McIvory v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-28· cited 3×
• Robert Allen Shaum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-17

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Rowland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-24· cited 927×
• Balkcom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-15· cited 158×
• Dick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-09· cited 52×
• Ney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-04-29· cited 45×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 28×
• Hasty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-30· cited 21×
• Pitts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-04-30· cited 17×
• Bohannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-05· cited 17×
• Veal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-17· cited 17×
• Gibbs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-02· cited 15×
• Butts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-08· cited 15×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-10· cited 15×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-25· cited 14×
• Gurr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-20· cited 10×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-25· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-25· cited 4×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-07-09· cited 3×