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.

• “Decisions about what questions to ask on cross-examination are quintessential trial strategy and will rarely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “‘[D]ecisions about what questions to ask on cross-examination are quintessential trial strategy and will rarely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.’” (citation omitted)
• “Decisions about what questions to ask on cross-examination are quintessential trial strategy and will rarely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.” (Citation and punctuation omitted.)
• “Decisions about what questions to ask on cross-examination are quintessential trial strategy and will rarely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• no deficient performance where appellant failed to show that he was offered a plea that counsel declined
• no deficiency in counsel’s failure to introduce medical-records evidence where counsel testified that the records “would not have had ‘any significant bearing one way or the other on the trial’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 29×
• Naples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 29×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 13×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Reddick v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-01-28· cited 8×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-11-04· cited 3×
• Victor Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-14
• Hart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12
• Jeremy Christopher Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-03

Cites

16 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×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• Ledford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 108×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 97×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Propst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 47×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 25×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 21×
• Mathis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-25· cited 21×
• Blackmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 16×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 15×
• Kim v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-16· cited 10×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 7×