Leggett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding trial strategy to be reasonable when defense counsel did not object to hearsay testimony of a child witness out of concern for alienating the jury
• rejecting claim of bolstering because forensic interviewer’s testimony merely recounted her interview with the victim and the victim’s statements about the incident and did not include any testimony that the interviewer believed the victim
• “[t]o preserve an objection as to a specific point, the objection must be on that specific ground in order for this court to consider it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Shawn Daniel Meintz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-01-30· cited 33×
• Jones v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-13· cited 21×
• McMurtry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-15· cited 8×
• Matabarahona v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 2×
• Andrew Jamaal Nembhard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-15
• Justin Hewett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-04-26
• Gregory Lamar Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-23
• Jerome McMurtry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-15
• Durlav Rijal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-05-23
• State v. Andrew Hammond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-21

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gregg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-05· cited 141×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 119×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 108×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-29· cited 88×
• Buice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-22· cited 83×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 60×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-28· cited 31×
• Jessie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 27×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-14· cited 25×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-07· cited 25×
• Lagana v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-29· cited 24×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 18×
• McIlwain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 18×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-02· cited 17×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-19· cited 14×
• Obeginski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-13· cited 13×
• Conley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 12×
• Shelnutt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-30· cited 11×