Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• the defendant testified that he did not strike the officer as charged and that he did not resist arrest
• defendant was not prejudiced by counsel’s failure to request a charge on resisting excessive force when defendant testified that he did not resist the arresting officer
• defendant was not prejudiced by counsel’s failure to request a charge on resisting excessive force when defendant testified that he did not resist the arresting officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 19×
• Haygood v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 3×

Cites

27 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×
• Gober v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-02· cited 83×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-12· cited 36×
• Aldridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-02· cited 29×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-04-06· cited 21×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-02-15· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-17· cited 20×
• Varner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 20×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-17· cited 20×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-04· cited 19×
• Lightning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 17×
• Potter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 15×
• Igidi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-09-18· cited 15×
• Love v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-02-21· cited 14×
• Lyons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-08-06· cited 12×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-11-05· cited 11×
• Nejad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 11×
• Bowles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-10-20· cited 10×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-02-24· cited 9×
• Leigner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-07-13· cited 9×