Massey v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt, the defendant failed to establish prejudice on ineffective assistance of counsel claims
• holding that improper admission of evidence was harmless error in light of victim’s positive identification of defendant as perpetrator
• holding that improper admission of evidence was harmless error in light of victim’s positive identification of defendant as perpetrator
• concluding that, in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt, the defendant failed to establish prejudice on ineffective assistance of counsel claims
• finding that any error in trial court’s admission of defendant’s prior conviction for impeachment evidence was harmless in prosecution for burglary, given the overwhelming evidence of guilt, including victim seeing him inside her home and him being caught in possession of victim’s laptop
• declining to reach the issue of whether the trial court erred in using the date of the burglary for which the defendant was on trial as the end date, because any error in admitting the prior conviction was harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-06· cited 13×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-09· cited 13×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-02· cited 11×
• Belcher v. the State.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-02-26· cited 10×
• Person v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-16· cited 3×
• Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-20· cited 2×
• Ronald Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-02
• Jose Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-09
• Richard L. Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-20
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18

Cites

23 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×
• State v. Belt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 86×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• State v. Byrd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-04-09· cited 37×
• State v. Hinson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 31×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• Whitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-04-08· cited 24×
• Newton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-27· cited 20×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 20×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-02-09· cited 17×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-13· cited 15×
• Wilkes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-14· cited 12×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-25· cited 11×
• Zinnamon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-06· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-25· cited 8×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-10· cited 8×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-21· cited 8×
• Mosley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-19· cited 8×
• Rucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-25· cited 7×