Kelly 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 strategic decision not to file a certain motion to be reasonable
• holding strategic decision not to file a certain motion to be reasonable
• “A trial court’s finding that a defendant has not been denied effective assistance of counsel will be affirmed unless clearly erroneous”
• it is not sufficient for appellant to raise the possibility that a separate trial would have given him or her a better chance of acquittal
• it is not sufficient for appellant to raise the possibility that a separate trial would have given him or her a better chance of acquittal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 61×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 54×
• Krause v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-22· cited 51×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 45×
• Cammon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-18· cited 44×
• Biggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 37×
• Herbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 37×
• Pike v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 33×
• Sevostiyanova v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-12· cited 31×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-04· cited 30×
• Buttram v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 30×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-06· cited 21×
• Leon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-24· cited 21×
• Milliken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-26· cited 19×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-04· cited 19×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-02-01· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-09· cited 16×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-13· cited 16×

Cites

8 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×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-07-09· cited 66×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-21· cited 64×
• Brogdon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-22· cited 56×
• Dennard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 55×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-05-02· cited 35×