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.

• “Because the prosecutor’s conduct violated Mallory v. State, supra, counsel’s performance was deficient to the extent he did not object.”
• “As a general rule, matters of reasonable trial strategy and tactics do not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• where prosecutor’s conduct violated rule against commenting on pre-arrest silence, “counsel’s performance was deficient to the extent he did not object”
• “Because the prosecutor's conduct violated Mallory v. State, supra, 9 counsel's performance was deficient to the extent he did not object.”
• where prosecutor’s conduct violated rule against commenting on pre-arrest silence, “counsel’s performance was deficient to the extent he did not object.”
• no error in denying ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on counsel’s failure to object under Mallory where there was overwhelming evidence, including eyewitness accounts, that appellant shot the unarmed victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 71×
• Barrett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 45×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 38×
• State v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 37×
• Dulcio v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 35×
• Dublin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 32×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-04-29· cited 31×
• Robbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 28×
• Humphrey v. Nance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-17· cited 23×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 19×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-01· cited 18×
• GAWLAK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-21· cited 17×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 16×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 14×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-02-06· cited 11×
• Frazier v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-10· cited 9×
• Orengo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-27· cited 7×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2016-04-29· cited 6×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-05-07· cited 6×
• State v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 4×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Mallory v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-11-01· cited 221×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 180×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-05-14· cited 124×
• Chapel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-16· cited 122×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-01-13· cited 114×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 55×
• Landers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 51×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-27· cited 51×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-30· cited 39×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 36×
• Lampley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 32×
• Crane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 26×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-04· cited 26×
• Marable v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-21· cited 5×
• Eason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-11· cited 5×