Morris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no Brady violation where undisclosed evidence was consistent with other evidence the State had already presented to the jury and was therefore not outcome determinative
• no Brady violation where suppressed 7 evidence was “consistent with the evidence that the State had already presented to the jury”
• failure to object to hearsay evidence cumulative of admissible evidence did not amount to ineffective assistance
• no Brady violation where failure to disclose test showing absence of blood on stairs was consistent with other evidence already presented to jury
• failure to object to hearsay evidence cumulative of admissible evidence did not amount to ineffective assistance
• “If an appellant fails to meet his burden of proving either prong of the . . . test, the reviewing court does not have to examine the other prong.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 20×
• Mohamed v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 16×
• Obeginski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-13· cited 13×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-24· cited 12×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-08-19· cited 11×
• Rainly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-30· cited 11×
• Scruggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-13· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 6×
• Downer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 6×
• Foreman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 4×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 1×
• Danny S. Barnett v. Georgia Department of Labor
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-17

Cites

10 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Zant v. Moon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 84×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 41×
• Hester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 34×
• Culmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 29×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 8×