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.

• rejecting a claim of deficient performance for not filing a motion to sever where defense counsel testified that his strategy was to make the co-defendants’ statements harder to admit due to the restrictions of Bruton v. United States, 391 U. S. 123 (88 SCt 1620, 20 LE2d 476) (1968
• failure to make a meritless objection does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Menzies v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-06-29· cited 31×
• HENDERSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 22×
• Pender v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-15· cited 19×
• Battle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 18×
• Blackmon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-02· cited 16×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 16×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-09-13· cited 15×
• Carcamo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-01-14· cited 12×
• Simpkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 12×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 12×
• Sapp v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-03-20· cited 8×
• Kuhn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-08-14· cited 7×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 5×
• In the Matter of Dell Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 5×
• NIXON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-08· cited 3×
• Perdomo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 3×
• State of Tennessee v. Jamaal Austin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-10-05
• Javorris Redding v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• John Marvin Penciel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-21

Cites

18 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×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 210×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 135×
• Hulett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 125×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-17· cited 83×
• Billings v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-06-03· cited 58×
• McClendon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 53×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-03-19· cited 34×
• Nelms v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 23×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-05· cited 23×
• Belsar v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-01· cited 14×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 11×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 11×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-11-21· cited 7×