Knighton 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 under the plain-error test, the error must be so obvious that “‘the trial judge and prosecutor were derelict in countenancing it, even absent the defendant’s timely assistance in detecting it’” (quoting United States v. Frady, 456 US 152, 163 (1982))
• “Because we concluded in Division 2 (b) above that the [trial] court did not err in that respect, counsel did not perform deficiently by failing to make such an objection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-01· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 18×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 9×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 4×
• Stryker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-16· cited 2×
• Jester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Durlav Rijal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-05-23
• Christopher Baggett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-05

Cites

33 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×
• United States v. Frady
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 5,791×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-22· cited 116×
• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Terrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 47×
• Venturino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 46×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-07-02· cited 45×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 44×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Koritta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 41×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 38×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 23×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-01-18· cited 22×
• Jimmerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 22×