Sims v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial counsel is not ineffective for failing to object to admissible testimony concerning a prior difficulty because such objection would be without merit
• trial counsel is not ineffective for failing to object to admissible testimony concerning a prior difficulty because such objection would be without merit
• “[s]ince the 15 testimony was admissible, an objection to it would have been without merit, and failure to make a meritless objection does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• failure to object to admissible evidence not ineffective assistance of counsel
• failure to raise meritless objection cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel
• failure to raise meritless objection cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Culmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 29×
• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 29×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-17· cited 20×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-11-05· cited 20×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 18×
• Tolbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 17×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 17×
• Grier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 15×
• Breazeale v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-23· cited 14×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 14×
• Griffith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-30· cited 13×
• Bihlear v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-09· cited 9×
• Sigman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 9×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-09· cited 8×
• Presley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-22· cited 7×
• Southwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-26· cited 5×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-16· cited 5×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-03· cited 4×
• Head v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-21· cited 3×
• Angulo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 3×

Cites

11 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 827×
• Wall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 183×
• Sallie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-24· cited 58×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 51×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 46×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-10· cited 37×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-09-15· cited 36×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-21· cited 22×