Owens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no ineffective assistance based on counsel’s failure to object to court’s admonition of counsel for asking misleading question of witness
• “Failure to make a meritless or futile objection or motion cannot be evidence of ineffective assistance.”
• “Failure to make a meritless or futile objection or motion cannot be evidence of ineffective assistance.”
• “Failure to make a meritless or futile objection or motion cannot be evidence of ineffective assistance.”
• first, defendant committed false imprisonment by holding victim at gunpoint; kidnapping occurred immediately after, when defendant forced victim from store proper to store’s hack office
• “Failure to make a meritless or futile objection or motion cannot be evidence of ineffective assistance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 114×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-07· cited 64×
• Daugherty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-21· cited 26×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-07· cited 25×
• Berman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-16· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 21×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-28· cited 16×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-28· cited 16×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-11· cited 16×
• Drake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-03· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-16· cited 14×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-29· cited 13×
• Moody v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 10×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 8×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-08· cited 8×
• Wilder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-08· cited 8×
• Frey v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-09-08· cited 8×
• Crane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-10-31· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-26· cited 7×
• Hollman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-21· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-03-15· cited 119×
• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Curtis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 106×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 83×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 61×
• Busch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 51×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-05· cited 44×
• Jefferson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-16· cited 40×
• Eagle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 28×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-08· cited 27×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-22· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-09· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-06· cited 19×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-06· cited 19×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-04-12· cited 17×
• Pinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-12· cited 13×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-19· cited 12×
• Pennymon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-03· cited 10×