Vann 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 deficient performance where “[a] competent attorney could have assessed that a voluntary manslaughter defense was either unavailable or weak”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-12-14· cited 33×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-30· cited 21×
• Park v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-04· cited 18×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-05-28· cited 13×
• TABOR v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-12-20· cited 11×
• Bonner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-08-23· cited 11×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-10· cited 6×
• Townsend v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 2×
• McFarland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21
• Piercefield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-06-16

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-07-02· cited 159×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Jessie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 27×
• Barron v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 22×
• Velasco v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-10-07· cited 19×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 10×