Matthews 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 reasonable professional conduct where counsel consulted with a supervisor, decided not to hire an expert, and instead used cross- examination and closing argument to advance the defense theory
• counsel reasonably determined not to call expert witness and focused on cross- examination and argument to advance defense theory
• no deficient performance where counsel elected to use cross-examination and argument to advance defense theory rather than calling defense expert
• no deficiency where defense counsel elected not to call expert witness and instead decided to use cross-examination and argument to advance defense theory
• trial counsel was not deficient for failing to retain an expert and instead choosing to “use cross-examination and argument to advance a defense theory”
• no deficiency where defense counsel elected not to call expert witness and instead decided to use cross-examination and argument to advance defense theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 33×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 32×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 21×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-01· cited 18×
• BROXTON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 16×
• Treadaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 16×
• Birdow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 15×
• Broxton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 15×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 13×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 9×
• Guzman-Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 9×
• Crouch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 8×
• Rosenau v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-18· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 4×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 4×
• Jiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 4×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-29· cited 3×
• William Gaspar-Mateo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-12

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 124×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-16· cited 42×
• Eason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-11· cited 5×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 5×