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.

• explaining that “‘decisions regarding trial tactics and strategy constitute deficient performance only if they were so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have followed such a course’”
• “Whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant the requested instruction is a legal question, which we review de novo.” (punctuation omitted)
• “Whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant the requested instruction is a legal question, which we review de novo.” (punctuation omitted)
• “Whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant the requested instruction is a legal question, which we review de novo.” (punctuation omitted)
• no prejudice shown where instructions as a whole covered omitted instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 44×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-09-21· cited 18×
• CAMPBELL v. THE STATE (Four Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-22· cited 15×
• Kimbro v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-10-11· cited 13×
• Priester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-04-18· cited 11×
• Reese v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 5×
• Bertram Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Antonios Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-01-04
• Keiver Rivas Arroyo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-21
• KATHY BOONE v. VASCULAR SURGICAL ASSOCIATES, P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-08-02
• Jonathan Douglas MacMillan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-09-19
• Avery Mondell Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-12-23
• C. CULLEN SCOTT v. JERRY TURNER
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-05
• Padgett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-06-24
• ROBERT JOSEPH SMITH v. PHILLIPE E. GADEGBEKU
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-09-30
• RHONDA L. WHITE v. KELLIE I. STANLEY
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-03
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-11-18
• Michael T. Smith as Administrator of the Estate of Ashley Amanda Claxton v. Dale Adams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2026-02-12
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• STEPP-McCOMMONS v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 25×
• Slaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-05-07· cited 24×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 18×
• Knighton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-21· cited 13×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-12-07· cited 13×
• Pippen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-03· cited 8×
• PRIESTER v. THE STATE (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 8×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-18· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 6×
• Carpenter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-04-15· cited 5×
• Barboza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 4×
• Cross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 3×