Lawrence 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 9 counsel’s decision not to cross-examine certain State’s witnesses” to avoid giving them “a chance to further implicate [the defendant] with their emphasized testimony” was “reasonable trial strategy” that did not constitute deficient performance
• “[T]rial counsel’s decision not to cross-examine certain State’s witnesses was reasonable trial strategy and did not amount to ineffective assistance.”
• “The mere waiver of an opening statement can be characterized as a trial tactic which cannot be equated to ineffective assistance of counsel.
• “If an appellant fails to meet his or her burden of proving either prong of the Strickland test, the reviewing court does not have to examine the other prong.”
• “If an appellant fails to meet his or her burden of proving either prong of the Strickland test, the reviewing court does not have to examine the other prong.”
• “If an appellant fails to meet his or her burden of proving either prong of the Strickland test, the reviewing court does not have to examine the other prong.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Plez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 59×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 43×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 38×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 36×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 36×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 35×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 34×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 32×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 32×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 32×
• Eller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 30×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 29×
• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 27×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 27×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 27×

Cites

12 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×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-12-01· cited 124×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 55×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 55×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-26· cited 34×
• Polk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-09· cited 11×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-29· cited 10×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-01-20· cited 7×