Sears v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] reasonable lawyer might have worried that objecting would only draw attention to the testimony.”
• vacating conviction that should have merged and remanding for resentencing
• vacating conviction that should have merged and remanding for resentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-04· cited 56×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 52×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 49×
• Edenfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 39×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 33×
• Akhimie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 30×
• Slaughter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 29×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-04-29· cited 22×
• Murdock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 18×
• Gittens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• Saffold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-21· cited 14×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 13×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-03· cited 12×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-15· cited 9×
• Wickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-22· cited 9×
• Barney v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-09-21· cited 7×
• Haynes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-29· cited 7×
• Mathis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 3×

Cites

34 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×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Schofield v. Holsey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 192×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-09· cited 103×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-28· cited 59×
• Culpepper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 53×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 47×
• Tennon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-11-24· cited 42×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 39×
• Rafi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-09-12· cited 38×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 35×
• Mikell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-15· cited 34×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 33×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-11-04· cited 30×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-29· cited 28×
• Cade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-03· cited 27×
• Hargett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 25×
• Sharpe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-24· cited 25×