Riley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting appellant’s “list of generalized assertions of his trial counsel’s alleged failings” be- cause it did not “show in what respect his counsel’s performance was deficient” (cleaned up)
• “[A]utonomy to decide that the objective of the defense is to assert innocence is reserved for the client.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-02
• Rease v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

33 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×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• McCoy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2018-05-14· cited 738×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Moss v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 77×
• State v. Herrera-Bustamante
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 58×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-28· cited 53×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 49×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-15· cited 45×
• Atkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 43×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-07· cited 27×
• MUSE v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-06-21· cited 27×
• Taryn Christian v. Todd Thomas
  Ninth Circuit· 2020-12-14· cited 25×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 25×
• Sauder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-04-30· cited 20×
• State v. Lampl
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 18×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 17×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-03-10· cited 16×
• Lowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 16×
• Carson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-18· cited 15×