McCoy v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “In light of the strong evidence of guilt, there is no reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different had trial counsel utilized alternative impeachment evidence.”
• trial counsel’s failure to impeach witness with particular information did not result in prejudice where such information had “only marginal impeachment value” and the evidence of guilt was strong
• no prejudice from trial counsel’s failure to impeach witness with prior testimony because the inconsistencies at issue were explored in detail during cross-examination and other witnesses testified similarly regarding the manner in which the defendant shot the victim
• con- cluding appellant failed to show prejudice because “even if trial counsel had engaged in additional impeachment . . . there were still two other eyewitnesses who knew [appellant], identified him as the shooter, and gave similar descriptions of how he shot the victim”
• evidence with marginal impeachment value does not establish prejudice
• evidence with marginal impeachment value does not establish prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 39×
• Esprit v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 34×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 20×
• Bentley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 20×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 20×
• Vivian v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 10×
• Prickett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 8×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 6×
• Huber v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 6×
• Benton v. Hines
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-03· cited 4×
• Ruff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 4×
• Burgess v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 2×
• Denny v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 2×
• ESPRIT v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11

Cites

11 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×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Cowart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 102×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 75×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 55×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 36×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-26· cited 34×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 16×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 15×