Pritchett 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 trial counsel’s failure to object to testimony that was neither “inconsistent with, [n]or undercut, the defense’s strategy at trial” was not deficient performance
• concluding that the prosecutor’s assertion that other- act evidence was admissible to show that the appellant had the motive “‘to use violence to control anyone around him’” was an improper propensity argument
• explaining that the State is not required to prove motive because it is not an essential element of a crime
• noting that the other-act evidence, which showed “a unique pattern or plan,” was admitted “to establish [the defendant’s] identity”
• where 19 defense theory was inconsistent with the physical evidence, jury was authorized to find beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant did not act in self-defense
• evi- dence was sufficient for the jury to reject the defendant’s self-de- fense theory when forensic and crime scene evidence did not sup- port that theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• ROOKS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 20×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• Whittaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 11×
• Leonard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 10×
• Haufler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 8×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-08-13· cited 8×
• Head v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 7×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 7×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 6×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 6×
• Brock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 4×
• MITCHELL v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 3×
• Randolph v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 1×
• Victor Graham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-14
• Michael Keith Underwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-02
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Jester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• EVANS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• Bryan Ivey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-03-14

Cites

40 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 61×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• United States v. Leo Lecompte
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-11-01· cited 49×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 45×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 44×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 41×
• Mosby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 40×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-16· cited 39×
• Bullard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 35×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 32×
• Morrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 32×