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.

• noting that when trial counsel’s failure to file a motion to suppress is the basis for a claim for ineffective assistance, the burden is on the appellant to make a strong showing that the damaging evidence would have been suppressed had counsel made the motion
• fighting is not the type of provocation that demands a voluntary manslaugh- ter charge
• finding no ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to object to State’s argument that “crime is a cancer that eats away at society,” and that the jury should “stand in the way of injustice”
• a failure to satisfy either prong is \sufficient to defeat a claim of ineffective assistance\
• “[N]either fear that someone is going to pull a gun nor fighting are the types of provocation which demand a voluntary manslaughter charge.”
• “[N]either fear that someone is going to pull a gun nor fighting are the types of provocation which demand a voluntary manslaughter charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 247×
• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Caffee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 48×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 47×
• Crayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 36×
• Glispie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-07· cited 36×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-21· cited 36×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 32×
• Dugger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-05-11· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-19· cited 30×
• Menefee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 29×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 27×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 27×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 25×
• Cushenberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 24×
• Lynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 23×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-11-04· cited 21×

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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• State v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 106×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-27· cited 82×
• Peoples v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 75×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 75×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-20· cited 53×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-22· cited 53×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 51×
• Reaves v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 43×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 42×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 40×
• Biggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 37×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-07· cited 36×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 26×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-01-24· cited 23×