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.

• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it “recited it had weighed the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses”
• \Deficient performance is not shown by counsel's failure to raise a meritless objection.\ (citation omitted)
• “Deficient performance is not shown by counsel’s failure to raise a meritless objection.” (citation omitted)
• decision on a motion for new trial on the \general grounds\ set out in OCGA §§ 5-5-20 and 5-5-21 is solely within the discretion of the trial court
• decision on a motion for new trial on the “general grounds” set out in OCGA §§ 5-5-20 and 5-5-21 is solely within the discretion of the trial court
• possession of a firearm by a convicted felon does not merge into malice murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dixon v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-04-19· cited 47×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 45×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 36×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 30×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 27×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 25×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 16×
• Troutman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-12-10· cited 15×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 14×
• WARD v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 14×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-27· cited 12×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 12×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 12×
• O'neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 12×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-06· cited 10×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-04-16· cited 9×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 9×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 9×
• London v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 9×
• Salvesen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 9×

Cites

17 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×
• Ridley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-02-02· cited 195×
• Lupoe v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 125×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-13· cited 114×
• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-01-20· cited 57×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 54×
• Akhimie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 30×
• Patel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 29×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 28×
• Slaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-03· cited 25×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• Capps v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 21×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-31· cited 19×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-17· cited 16×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 16×
• Philpot v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 8×