Stevenson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Atrial attorney is not ineffective in failing to pursue a futile... argument in the accused’s defense.”
• “A trial attorney is not ineffective in failing to pursue a futile . . . argument in the accused’s defense.”
• trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to discover that a grand juror was a convicted felon when defendant failed to produce evidence of either the conviction or the nonrestoration of the grand juror’s rights
• trial court did not clearly err in denying motion for new trial when defendant did not introduce certified copy of grand juror’s conviction into evidence and could not show that grand juror had not had his rights restored

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Abernathy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-30· cited 40×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-08· cited 23×
• Port v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-14· cited 16×
• Pepe-Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-18· cited 14×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-13· cited 13×
• Hubert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 12×
• Bass v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-17· cited 8×
• Orengo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-27· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-13· cited 6×
• Martinez-Vargas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13· cited 5×
• Lidy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-01-25· cited 4×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-07· cited 3×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-26· cited 3×
• MOBLEY v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-22· cited 3×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-24
• Geovany Martinez-Vargas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-13
• David Pepe-Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-18
• Maurice Lidy III v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-01-25
• Michael Orengo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-27

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×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Curtis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 106×
• State v. Belt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 86×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-05· cited 44×
• Bitting v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1927-09-29· cited 31×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-05· cited 27×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-22· cited 25×
• Prickett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 23×
• Edmonson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-15· cited 21×
• Black v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-09-21· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-23· cited 16×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-14· cited 16×
• Massingill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-04· cited 13×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-01-11· cited 13×
• Brewster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-19· cited 11×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-13· cited 10×
• Mullady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-15· cited 10×
• Bolds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-11· cited 9×