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.

• finding no ineffective assistance in the failure to object to the prosecutor’s closing argument because it was “reasonable for [defense counsel] to pursue a strategy that would allow the potentially inappropriate 10 antics of the prosecutor to backfire against her”
• “In this regard, we must remind all prosecutors in this State that it is not their job to pursue stunts and antics during their closing arguments that are designed merely to appeal to the prejudices of jurors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 374×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 55×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Battles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 48×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-01-09· cited 33×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-04-29· cited 31×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-02-24· cited 31×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 29×
• McIver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 29×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 27×
• Wilkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 24×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-07· cited 24×
• Ridley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-06· cited 20×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 17×
• Kesterson v. Jarrett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 16×
• Nations v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-11-07· cited 15×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-01-23· cited 11×

Cites

43 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×
• Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1980-07-02· cited 1,951×
• United States v. Atkinson
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-03· cited 1,580×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-09-15· cited 421×
• Silber v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 254×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 227×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-24· cited 142×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 118×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 102×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-01-19· cited 97×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Braithwaite v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 95×
• Paul v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 83×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Wright v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-11-17· cited 71×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• R. W. Page Corp. v. Lumpkin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-29· cited 68×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 62×