Sparks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• addressing merits of ineffective assistance of counsel claims where defendant had raised such claims in premature motion for new trial
• “counsel is entitled to base the defense on the veracity of the client’s assertions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Demons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-29· cited 47×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 41×
• Jeffrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 35×
• Wyman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 20×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-04-02· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-10· cited 11×
• Reid v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-07· cited 11×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 10×
• Savior v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-27· cited 7×
• Mayberry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-02· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 7×
• Leslie v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-14· cited 4×
• GOMEZ-OLIVA v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-18· cited 3×
• McNear v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-06· cited 3×
• Woods v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-16· cited 1×
• Alphonso McNear v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-06
• Emanuel Leonardo Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-04-02

Cites

15 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• State v. Stonaker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-08· cited 349×
• Van Alstine v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 87×
• Bagwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 44×
• Harrison v. Harrison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-11-09· cited 36×
• Nicholson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-02· cited 30×
• State v. Clay
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-07· cited 25×
• Wadley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-30· cited 25×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-23· cited 14×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-05· cited 12×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-07-09· cited 11×
• McCutchen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-04-29· cited 7×