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 that trial counsel was not deficient for failing to object to alleged “testimonial hearsay in violation of [appellant’s] Sixth Amendment right to confrontation” because it was a strategic decision
• “[W]e evaluate only the effects of matters determined to be error, not the cumulative effect of non-errors.”
• “[A] matter such as the cross-examination of a witness is most often grounded in matters of trial tactics and strategy and, in those instances, provides no basis for finding counsel’s performance deficient.”
• “a matter such as the cross-examination of a witness is most often grounded in matters of trial tactics and strategy and, in those instances, provides no basis for finding counsel’s performance deficient”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Stuckey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 34×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 22×
• Gittens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-06-27· cited 16×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-01-11· cited 14×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 13×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 11×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-09-09· cited 9×
• Stribling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 8×
• COBB v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-10-23· cited 6×
• Spell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-20· cited 6×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 5×
• FRANKLIN v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-07-01· cited 4×
• Guyton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 1×
• Shian Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Telly McNeal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-05

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×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 102×
• Favors v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 73×
• McNair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 62×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Propst v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 47×
• Bulloch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 40×
• Turpin v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 39×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 34×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 31×
• Charleston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• Chapman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-02-27· cited 17×
• Solomon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-23· cited 11×