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.

• concluding that the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of neglect under OCGA § 16-5- 101 (a) without referring to OCGA § 16-5-101 (b)
• concluding that trial counsel did not perform deficiently by deciding not to request jury instructions on involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct and by instead pursuing an all- or-nothing defense of accident, which was “based on his client’s account of the events”
• no deficient performance where, based on defendant’s account of 25 events, counsel decided to forgo jury instructions based on alternative defense theory
• “Decisions about which jury charges to request are classic matters of trial strategy.” (citation modified)
• “Pursuit of an ‘all or nothing’ defense [generally] is a permissible trial strategy.”
• The “[p]ursuit of an ‘all or nothing’ defense is a permissible trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 44×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 39×
• Eubanks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 24×
• Goodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 18×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Talley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 15×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-20· cited 10×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 7×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24· cited 6×
• Finnissee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 4×
• Anthony Jernigan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-21
• BLACKWELL v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29
• Sheila Bell Hawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-24
• Lewis Terrance Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-21
• Jonathan Burnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-02-28
• Edouard Kamdem v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-06-22

Cites

7 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×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 77×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 65×
• Domingues v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 60×
• Jessie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 27×
• McKee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 18×