Shaw 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 under plain error analysis, the defendant must show that the trial court’s errors “probably affected the verdict”
• finding that the trial lawyer’s explanation for not calling the children as witnesses — that the evidence they could provide could be elicited from other witnesses — was not unreasonable
• finding that the trial lawyer’s explanation for not calling the children as witnesses – that the evidence they could provide could be elicited from other witnesses – was not unreasonable
• noting that “harmless-error” analysis is different from “plain-error analysis”
• affirming conviction because the defendant “had a fair opportunity to present evidence of 8 his claim of self-defense through his own testimony at trial” and because “[t]he charges given . . . fairly informed the jury as to the law of self-defense”
• “[T]he jury is free to reject a defendant’s claim that he acted in self-defense.” (Citation and punctuation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 167×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 125×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 93×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-09· cited 57×
• Bozzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 55×
• Ballard v. State v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 52×
• Mims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 46×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-02· cited 44×
• State v. Worsley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 40×
• Rainwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 36×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 36×
• Ivey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 34×
• Dority v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 33×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-01-19· cited 33×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 33×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 31×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-16· cited 25×

Cites

29 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×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• David Ronald Chandler v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-07-21· cited 1,022×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 546×
• Cheddersingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 86×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 85×
• Slade v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 69×
• Alvelo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 65×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 65×
• Shank v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 63×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 59×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-15· cited 46×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 31×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 29×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-03-31· cited 27×
• Webb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-07· cited 22×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-07· cited 22×