Thomas 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 the improper admission of other-acts evidence showing that the appellant committed a prior shooting created a “risk of prejudice and confusion of the issues,” but that such a risk was offset by the strong evidence of his guilt of the charged crimes
• “If a defendant decides to testify, counsel must accept that decision and call him to the stand.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• Pritchett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 29×
• Jivens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 24×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 8×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 6×
• Randolph v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 1×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-06· cited 1×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Jester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-09-16
• Kymbalee Ann Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-04-28

Cites

21 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×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 158×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 86×
• United States v. Hung Thien Ly
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-07-20· cited 77×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-26· cited 65×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 57×
• Atkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 43×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 37×
• Morrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 32×
• State v. Spratlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 27×
• Howell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-10· cited 27×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 25×
• Manning v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 21×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 21×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 14×
• McLAUGHLIN v. PAYNE
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-07-11· cited 12×