Patterson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• agreeing that “the decision of Appellant’s trial counsel ‘to take it easy on [the murder victim’s wife] because he did not want to be seen as attacking a sympathetic witness’ was a strategic decision” that did not constitute deficient performance
• no deficiency in counsel’s failure to call witness whose testimony would have been cumulative
• “Ineffectiveness claims must be raised and pursued at the earliest practicable moment, which for a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel is at the motion for new trial stage if the defendant is no longer represented by the attorney who represented him at trial.”
• “Ineffectiveness claims must be raised and pursued at the earliest practicable moment, which for a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel is at the motion for new trial stage if the defendant is no longer represented by the attorney who represented him at trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 32×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-07-05· cited 25×
• Wood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-07-05· cited 11×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 7×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• Eaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-29· cited 5×
• Perrault v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-02· cited 5×
• Vendrel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• David Rubio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-08-15
• Ealey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-10-21
• Allan Traughber v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-30
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17
• Small v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-03
• Bradford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-21
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05
• Snow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Mosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 40×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 32×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 31×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 28×
• Elkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-28· cited 27×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 26×
• MOORE v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 24×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 22×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-01· cited 19×
• Goodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 18×
• Outlaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-01-11· cited 14×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 12×
• Vann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-19· cited 11×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 10×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 10×