Rivers v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “An attorney’s failure to object to [inadmissible] testimony may be seen as trial strategy, i.e., avoiding an objection that would draw the jury’s attention to the statement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 94×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-22· cited 83×
• Sweet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 49×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-20· cited 48×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 37×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 37×
• Boatright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-08· cited 37×
• Hinely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-25· cited 27×
• Al-Attawy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-25· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-10· cited 19×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-17· cited 17×
• Judkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-29· cited 17×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 16×
• Aikens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 15×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-19· cited 14×
• Lindo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-15· cited 13×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-15· cited 13×
• Lighten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-23· cited 12×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 12×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-04-25· cited 12×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-05-24· cited 78×
• Stansell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 53×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-30· cited 29×
• Leonard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 27×
• Tyler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-22· cited 20×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 19×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-06-28· cited 8×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-05-03· cited 7×