Wainwright 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 when the defendant acts with criminal intent or criminal negligence, a charge on accident is not warranted
• Mere speculation that counsel failed to properly cross-examine witness is not enough to show prejudice on ineffective assistance of counsel claim.
• “[T]o authorize a requested jury instruction, there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “[T]o authorize a requested jury instruction, there need only be slight evidence supporting the theory of the charge.” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• defendant failed to show harm from trial court’s denial of a continuance to wait for lead counsel’s arrival where defendant pointed to no error in co-counsel’s performance during lead counsel’s absence or deficiency in lead counsel’s performance based on his absence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 51×
• Gaston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-13· cited 47×
• Lofton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-02-15· cited 17×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-05· cited 12×
• DALY v. BERRYHILL
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 10×
• Isaac v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-14· cited 8×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-08-19· cited 6×
• Rammage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Vendrel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-02-06· cited 5×
• Kingdom v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-04-08· cited 5×
• Hogan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-02-28· cited 4×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-10· cited 4×
• Bonner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 4×
• Kinlaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 4×
• Depriest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-01· cited 3×

Cites

30 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Wesley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 208×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 108×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-04-19· cited 63×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-13· cited 59×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 52×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 51×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-21· cited 51×
• Turpin v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-11-22· cited 39×
• Anthony v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 35×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-10-17· cited 29×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-03-14· cited 24×
• Geiger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 24×
• Charleston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-25· cited 23×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-10-21· cited 20×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-07-06· cited 18×
• Phoenix v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 16×