Lewis 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 failure to present cumulative evidence was not prejudicial
• holding ineffective assistance claim waived when trial court did not rule on issue raised for first time in the hearing on the motion for new trial and not in a written motion
• explaining that “while other counsel . . . may have exercised different judgment . . . [that] does not require a finding that the representation below was so inadequate as to amount to a denial of effective assistance of counsel”
• the appellant failed to show that his trial counsel was ineffective by failing to present a witness where that witness’s testimony would have been cumulative of other evidence presented at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 24×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 18×
• Moulder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 13×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 3×
• State v. Riley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 2×
• Julia Maria Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-02-11

Cites

28 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×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 77×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 38×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-07-01· cited 28×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 27×
• Debelbot v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-13· cited 26×
• Rickman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-18· cited 19×