Lockhart v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Decisions regarding which jurors to strike and which to accept are questions of trial strategy.”
• counsel was not deficient for his strategic decision not to request replacement of the entire panel after a prospective juror told the jury pool that he had met the defendant while working at the prison \on the maximum security floor ... dealing with violent criminals\
• counsel was not deficient for his strategic decision not to request replacement of the entire panel after a prospective juror told the jury pool that he had met the defendant while working at the prison “on the maximum security floor . . . dealing with violent criminals”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 22×
• Capps v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 21×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 19×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 16×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 15×
• Early v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 13×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 12×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 12×
• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-01-19· cited 8×
• KIRKLAND v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 8×
• Nesbit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 8×
• ANDERSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-11· cited 7×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 7×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 5×
• JOHNSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-14· cited 3×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-08· cited 2×
• Harold Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Tucker Hamlette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-14
• Nathaniel Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-05-04
• Reynaldo Alvarez-Maldonado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-02

Cites

17 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 56×
• Mohamud v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-15· cited 39×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 39×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 33×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 31×
• Upton v. Parks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 30×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-19· cited 29×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-20· cited 25×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 18×
• Kinder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 11×
• Bennett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-24· cited 8×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-24· cited 4×