Mathis 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 a challenge to the trial court’s failure to question a sleeping juror was “waived” where “counsel made no contemporaneous request for the trial court to conduct an inquiry and later declined to move to excuse the juror”
• reiterating that to demonstrate deficient performance, “appellant must overcome the strong presumption that counsel’s performance fell within a wide range of reasonable professional assistance”
• reiterating that to demonstrate deficient performance, “appellant must overcome the strong presumption that counsel’s performance fell within a wide range of reasonable professional assistance”
• “In the absence of evidence to the contrary, counsel’s decisions are presumed to be strategic and thus insufficient to support an ineffective assistance of counsel claim.”
• “In the absence of evidence to the contrary, counsel’s decisions are presumed to be strategic and thus insufficient to support an ineffective assistance of counsel claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 57×
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 26×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 11×
• Newton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 9×
• Styles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-24· cited 8×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 6×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-20· cited 6×
• Smith v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-01-25· cited 4×
• Sorrells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 3×
• Darievq Javon Richardson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-10-23
• Euresio Sorrells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-28
• Dominique Styles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-24

Cites

26 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 167×
• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 139×
• Thomason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 82×
• Lucky v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-08· cited 57×
• Lamons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 45×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 40×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 36×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 32×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 31×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-07-12· cited 30×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-15· cited 26×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 26×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-07· cited 25×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 21×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 21×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-22· cited 18×