Morrison v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that where defendant refuses to offer mitigating evidence, the trial court \may\ have an obligation to conduct an independent investigation into evidence of mitigation
• noting that, at Morrison's request, no mitigating evidence was presented
• explaining that, while “the defendant, and not his attorney, makes the ultimate decision about . . . whether or not to present . . . mitigation 54 [evidence],” that decision must be made by an informed and competent defendant in order to be valid
• trial counsel not ineffective for following defendant’s wishes and arguing for imposition of the death penalty
• “Even if he is represented by an attorney, the attorney ‘is still only an assistant to the defendant and not the master of the defense.’ [Cit.]”
• a competent defendant, after being properly informed by his attorney, makes the ultimate decision about what line of defense to pursue and about whether to testify in his own behalf, to plead guilty and to present mitigation witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Blair
  California Supreme Court· 2005-07-28· cited 282×
• Isaacs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 201×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-01-18· cited 153×
• Clarence Thomas v. Tenneco Packaging Co., Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-06-13· cited 110×
• Wellons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 105×
• Mize v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-15· cited 105×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-21· cited 100×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-03-27· cited 79×
• State v. Arguelles
  Utah Supreme Court· 2003-01-14· cited 68×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-19· cited 59×
• United States v. Davis
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-03-11· cited 54×
• Dewberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 53×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 46×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 45×
• State of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. Johnson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-04-19· cited 41×
• Colwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 41×
• Perkins v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-18· cited 37×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-07-11· cited 36×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 33×
• Adkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-03-26· cited 32×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Blackledge v. Allison
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-02· cited 3,882×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-24· cited 157×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-02-07· cited 150×
• People v. Deere
  California Supreme Court· 1985-12-31· cited 136×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 129×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-10-17· cited 113×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 92×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-29· cited 85×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-09· cited 84×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-01-24· cited 82×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-27· cited 82×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-03-06· cited 66×
• Burger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-03-14· cited 65×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-10-07· cited 60×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-10-11· cited 58×
• High v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-02-24· cited 56×
• Justus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 45×
• Sanborn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-28· cited 44×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-13· cited 42×