Patel v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “experienced trial counsel” made a reasonable strategic decision not 21 to request a defense of habitation instruction “based on counsel’s assessment of the jury and the evidence”
• disapproved of on other grounds by Gibbs v. State, 303 Ga. 681 (813 SE2d 393) (2018
• “In the absence of testimony to the contrary, counsel’s actions are presumed strategic.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 46×
• Navarrete v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-08· cited 23×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-13· cited 21×
• Rouse v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-03· cited 14×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-11-05· cited 13×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 10×
• Bly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-20· cited 8×
• Traylor v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22· cited 8×
• Gibbs v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-14· cited 8×
• Beard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 5×
• Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-06· cited 5×
• Thompson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-21· cited 4×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-09· cited 3×
• Revells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-10-25· cited 2×
• Carlos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-02· cited 2×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-15· cited 2×
• Gooden v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 2×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 98×
• Roulain v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 66×
• Domingues v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 60×
• Benham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 57×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 34×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 18×
• In Re Spruell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-29· cited 8×
• Wayne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-02-23· cited 3×