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.

• no ineffective assistance shown where there was no reasonable probability that testimony of additional witnesses would have affected the outcome at trial
• “Without a proffer of evidence that would have been admissible and favorable to his case, [defendant] has failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability that the testimony of these witnesses would have affected the outcome at trial.”
• lawyer not ineffective for failing to call former employers, who only knew of defendant “based on his work and the limited interactions they had with him,” as character witnesses because good character evidence must be based on knowledge of general reputation in the community

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-24· cited 28×
• McDuffie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 21×
• Dunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 19×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 16×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-07· cited 12×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-21· cited 12×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-28· cited 11×
• Nejad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 11×
• Lockheart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 10×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19· cited 10×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 10×
• Ellicott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 7×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-20· cited 6×
• Daugherty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-16· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-03· cited 5×
• Stevens v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-09-10· cited 4×
• Mallery v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-09-08· cited 3×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 3×
• Riles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-05-23· cited 2×
• Henry Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-19

Cites

13 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×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• Smith v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-29· cited 406×
• Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-29· cited 135×
• Ambles v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-09-11· cited 75×
• Sweet v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 49×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-01-30· cited 46×
• Burton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-01-10· cited 38×
• Lynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1913-06-13· cited 34×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-08· cited 29×
• Wigfall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 6×