Walker v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• alleged errors in jury instructions on felony murder, aggravated assault, and cruelty to children moot because defendant convicted of malice murder
• trial counsel’s decision to forgo objections so as not to draw further attention to witnesses’ statements was a reasonable strategy
• trial counsel’s decision to forgo objections to several statements by witness so as not to give them “validity” or draw “attention” or “focus” to such statements was reasonable trial strategy (punctuation omitted)
• jury could con- clude that the defendant was responsible for the death of a child when the child suffered fatal injuries while solely in the care of the defendant
• closure of courtroom during closing argument and final jury charge
• evidence sufficient to sustain conviction for malice murder where child sustained numerous injuries in days leading up to her death while living with defendant, the injuries were not consistent with defendant’s explanations, and defendant made an incriminating statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 53×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 19×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-02-15· cited 16×
• Blackshear v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 14×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-03-15· cited 14×
• Redding v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 12×
• MARTIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 11×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 9×
• McNabb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 8×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 7×
• Samuel A. Brewton, III. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-08
• Hart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-26
• Emery Parrish v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-01-18
• Christopher Baggett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-05
• Darnell Craw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-19

Cites

29 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×
• Weaver v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2017-06-22· cited 717×
• Romer v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-07-01· cited 233×
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-12-11· cited 191×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• Delacruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-03-13· cited 70×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Reid v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-02-08· cited 64×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Conaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-11-26· cited 58×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 51×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 47×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 37×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-05-08· cited 37×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-01· cited 35×
• Akhimie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-09-14· cited 30×
• Allaben v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 30×
• Davenport v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-28· cited 21×
• Solomon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-01-22· cited 16×