Nichols v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that failure to object to prosecutor’s improper reflections upon a defendant’s future dangerousness may not establish ineffective assistance of counsel
• deciding what evidence to present or to forego is a matter of strategy and tactics and, if reasonable, does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel
• explaining that the finding of prejudice in Martin was based upon readily available medical records and expert testimony
• defendant failed to overcome strong presumption that inaction was a strategic decision when he never asked trial counsel to explain why he did not object to prosecutor’s opinion on defendant’s veracity
• “At the hearing on the motion for new trial, Nichols never asked defense counsel to explain why he did not object. Thus, he failed to overcome the strong presumption that the inaction was a strategic decision.”
• “evidence of [appellant’s] previous conviction was admissible to corroborate the prosecution’s theory, by illustrating his course of conduct and bent of mind in resorting to the use of a knife to commit an unprovoked attack on one with whom he was ostensibly socializing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 77×
• Bozzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 55×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 27×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 25×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-11· cited 22×
• Appling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 18×
• Emmanuel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-07· cited 17×
• Dukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-26· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-06· cited 15×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 15×
• Hambrick v. Brannen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 12×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-12· cited 10×
• Nguyen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-04· cited 8×
• Bass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-17· cited 8×
• Sewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-14· cited 6×
• McKay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 1×
• Darius Rashun Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-05-12
• Diop v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-09
• Ebony Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-12

Cites

14 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×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-11· cited 61×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 61×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 59×
• Laster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-30· cited 53×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-20· cited 53×
• Dewberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 53×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 47×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-04· cited 41×
• Martin v. Barrett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 31×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-10· cited 28×
• Wiggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-12· cited 25×
• Zellars v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 23×