Sullivan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining “the decision whether to present an expert witness, like other decisions about which defense witnesses to call, is a matter of trial strategy that, if reasonable, will not sustain a claim of ineffective assistance” (punctuation omitted)
• “[T]he decision whether to present an expert witness, like other decisions about which defense witnesses to call, 14 is a matter of trial strategy that, if reasonable, will not sustain a claim of ineffective assistance.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “Given this record, even if other attorneys might have explored the mental issue further, we can- not conclude that the investigation by and tactical judgment of [a]ppellant’s attorney was outside the wide range of reasonably effective assistance.” (cleaned up)
• “Given this record, even if other attorneys might have explored the mental issue further, we cannot conclude that the investigation by and tactical judgment of [a]ppellant’s attorney was outside the wide range of reasonably effective assistance.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “[A] decision as to which defense witnesses to call is a matter of counsel’s trial strategy and tactics and will not support a claim of ineffective 7 assistance of counsel unless it is so unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made the decision under the circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Horton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 24×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-21· cited 24×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 20×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-01· cited 18×
• Park v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 18×
• Lanier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 13×
• Bonner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-09-17· cited 7×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 6×
• Eaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-29· cited 5×
• Shelton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 5×
• Hardy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-24· cited 4×
• Ward, Comr. v. Medina
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 3×
• Brennan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-01· cited 1×
• Justin St. Germain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-01-25
• Devin Hartman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16

Cites

19 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×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 75×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• Stripling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 66×
• VIRGER v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 62×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 59×
• Virger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 59×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 31×
• Matthews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-30· cited 29×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 24×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• Whitus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 19×
• Neely v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 9×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 9×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-26· cited 8×