McNair 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 whether the evidence supports a verdict of malice murder as opposed to voluntary manslaughter is a jury question
• trial counsel’s decision not to object to hearsay testimony did not constitute deficient performance when decision made as part of trial strategy
• “Trial tactics and strategy, no matter how mistaken in hindsight, are almost never adequate grounds for finding trial counsel ineffective. . . .” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• trial counsel’s decision not to object to hearsay testimony did not constitute deficient performance when decision made as part of trial strategy
• “[A] tactical or strategic decision made by counsel cannot form a basis for ineffective assistance of counsel unless it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.” (Citation and punctuation omitted)
• “Trial tactics and strategy . . . are almost never adequate grounds for finding trial counsel ineffective unless they are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.” (Citation and punctuation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 125×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 38×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 32×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 28×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 24×
• Coley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 24×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 23×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 21×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-28· cited 19×
• Gilmer v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-18· cited 16×
• Lord v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-10-09· cited 16×
• Birdow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 15×
• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 12×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 12×
• Reyes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 12×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 10×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 9×
• Guzman-Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 9×

Cites

15 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×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-09-17· cited 68×
• Loadholt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 38×
• Guess v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 36×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-19· cited 35×
• Shields v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-05-04· cited 22×
• Lewandowski v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-04-14· cited 20×
• Ricketts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-24· cited 17×
• Wynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-10· cited 12×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 11×
• Langston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-02· cited 4×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-10-11· cited 3×