Robinson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that, where complained-of statements by prosecutor were preceded by a lengthy list of inconsistencies presented by the witness’s testimony, which brought witness’s veracity into question, gravamen of argument was to urge jury to find from inconsistencies that the witness had lied
• determining that, where complained-of statements by prosecutor were preceded by a lengthy list of inconsistencies presented by the witness’s testimony, which brought witness’s veracity into question, gravamen of argument was to urge jury to find from inconsistencies that the witness had lied
• finding no deficient performance for failing to object to prosecutor’s argument: “that piece doesn’t fit, because it’s absolutely a lie. Not only is he a thief himself, but he’s a liar, and he’s lied to you today from the witness stand. His story about what happened just does absolutely not fit.”
• finding no deficient performance for failing to object to prosecutor’s argument: “that piece doesn’t fit, because it’s absolutely a lie. Not only is he a thief himself, but he’s a liar, and he’s lied to you today from the witness stand. His story about what happened just does absolutely not fit.”
• “The matter of when and how to raise objections is generally a matter of trial strategy.”
• “In assessing the prejudicial effect of counsel’s failure to call a witness (whether that failure resulted from a tactical decision, negligent oversight, or otherwise

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Payne v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-09· cited 63×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-06· cited 55×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-09-22· cited 36×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-01-21· cited 35×
• Daughtie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 31×
• Hampton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 30×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• Walker v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-29· cited 27×
• Fitz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-13· cited 24×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-08· cited 23×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-01· cited 22×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-06-21· cited 22×
• Pringle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-22· cited 20×
• Styles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 20×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-18· cited 17×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-11· cited 16×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 15×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 15×
• Rouse v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-12-02· cited 13×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Suggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-02-14· cited 222×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Shirley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-09· cited 89×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 51×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-28· cited 49×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 47×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 39×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 39×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-10-18· cited 38×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 13×